Logging and land-clearing
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Graeme Samuel makes 38 recommendations to transform the EPBC Act, including new independent oversight bodies
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Letters sent to the forestry agency advised logging in bushfire-affected areas should apply the ‘precautionary principle’ to consider threatened species
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Ancient Forest Alliance’s project underscores the preventions that are needed to protect old-growth trees in areas such as the Caycuse watershed
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Former Greens leader Bob Brown warns extinction is coming rapidly for the species as he goes to court over forestry agreements
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Exclusive: Natural Resources Commission to consider the standards needed to practice sustainable logging in burnt forest
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State government proposal allows rural landholders to clear up to 25 metres from their fence line
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John Dargavel says his professional body ‘damaged and demeaned’ all foresters by dismissing links between logging and bushfire risks
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Politicians and industry use error to dismiss research showing logging can make the state’s forests more flammable
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Conservationists say legal action and industry certification failures should send a clear message to government forestry agencies
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State-sanctioned felling is ‘based on a monumental lie’, former Greens leader says
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Global Witness campaigners warn of risk of further killings during Covid-19 lockdowns
Environmental investigations Fighting for Fraser Island: how tourism and climate change put an ancient environment at risk