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Topic: logging
(Image: AAP/David Crosling)

Labor election review points finger

Crikey Worm

Nov 08, 2019

Australia’s hidden environmental crisis

Environment

Sep 04, 2017

3

Tasmania's woodchip industry is uncompetitive, overseas demand has dried up, and Australian plants are closing. So why on earth are loggers still talking about the closed Triabunna woodchip mill as if it could be reopened?

(Graeme) Wood for the trees: Tassie’s psycho forest wars reignite

Companies

Sep 26, 2014

4

A criminal syndicate of illegal logging interests threatens the development of the Solomon Islands. While corrupt politicians thrive, ordinary people are left by the wayside, writes freelancer <b>Catherine Wilson</b>, who travelled to the region.

The Asian mafia with a stranglehold on the Solomon Islands

Asia-Pacific

Feb 05, 2014

3

Australia's native forest industry simply cannot compete in the global marketplace. Handing over more taxpayer-funded assistance will not solve the problem, writes ANU associate professor<b>Andrew Macintosh</b>.

Don’t blame the greenies: the real reason for timber decline

Asia-Pacific

Apr 15, 2013

10

The deal to save Tasmanian forests has seen the logging and mining industry remain determined that these forests are not converted into national parks and "locked up" -- and the Prime Minister Julia Gillard seems to agree, writes Crikey naturalist <b>Lionel Elmore</b>.

Stance on Tasmanian forests putting $millions at risk

Environment

Aug 05, 2011

9

Environmentalists are crying out for federal government intervention and regulation on environmental policies nationwide following the government’s payout deal struck with Tasmania’s lumber industry over the weekend.

With Tassie logging deal done, what about our other forests?

Australia

Jul 26, 2011

12

According to the Australasian Paper Industry Association, it is better for the environment to print your emails than to check them repeatedly. Not quite, reports <b>Nick Johns-Wickberg</b>.

Save the earth: print your emails. So says the paper lobby…

Environment

Sep 21, 2010

5

In David Bartlett's first three months as Premier, his only meetings on forests policy were with government agencies, companies and industry lobby groups which championed the logging of old-growth forests, writes <b>Bob Burton</b>.

David Bartlett’s Appointments Diary: meeting with the loggers

Tasmania

Mar 02, 2010

Madagascar's lemurs are one of the area's biggest tourist drawcards, but illegal loggers and starving locals are hunting the endangered primates for their meat, whilst corrupt police and politicians turn a blind eye.

Who’s eating Madagascar’s lemurs?

Africa

Nov 23, 2009

Forestry Tasmania's treatment of protesters in the Upper Florentine has failed to stand up in court, reports <b>Andrew Darby</b>. But after a generation of fighting, the bitter battles over trees in Tasmania continues to grow -- even if the forests don't.

How Forestry Tasmania lost the plot

Environment

Oct 06, 2009

The CEO of the Victorian Association of Forest Industries, <b>Philip Dalidakis</b>, responds to Frank Campbell's piece on the Victorian Government’s Timber Industry Strategy.

VAFI: Timbre of assertions not quite right

Victoria

Sep 02, 2009

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