LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Wednesday 23 September
By Dr Michelle Freeman, President, Forestry Australia
The Senate has made a political decision to allow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) Method, which credits carbon for reducing or ending timber harvesting in native forests, …
MEDIA RELEASE
Wednesday 9 September
Forestry Australia has made clear that its proposed Enhancing Native Forest Resilience carbon method is designed not to enable additional native forest harvesting, but to support scientifically demonstrated improvements in forest carbon, health and resilience.
Forestry Australia …
MEDIA RELEASE
Friday 4 September 2026
More than 190 people have already registered for the 2026 Forestry Australia Symposium, where the sector will spend three days on a question how forestry can strengthen public awareness, build social licence and …
Financial support is available for early-career and Indigenous Australian forestry practitioners, researchers and students.
Forestry Australia and the Australian Forest and Wood Innovations Centre for Climate-Smart Forestry (AFWI CCSF) are offering scholarship opportunities to support early-career professionals or Indigenous Australians to attend Forestry Australia’s 2026 Symposium …
MEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Forest scientists have welcomed the deferral of the Senate vote on the Improved Native Forest Management Method (INFM Method) to 15 September, saying the additional four weeks should be used to publish the …
MEDIA RELEASE
Thursday 30 July 2026
Forestry Australia is raising serious concerns about the new Improved Native Forest Management in Multiple-use Public Native Forests Method (INFM Method), after technical analysis by its forest carbon experts identified …
Thursday 23 July 2026
This Sunday morning, in parks, paddocks and backyards across the country, thousands of Australians will kneel in the winter soil and plant a tree. Planet Ark’s National Tree Day turns 30 this year, and Australians have planted almost 28 …
Friday 16 July 2026
New spatial modelling published in Australian Forestry, the peer-reviewed journal of Forestry Australia, finds that only a small share of the private native forest estate along the New South Wales coast and tablelands can …
Tuesday 07 July 2026
A federal insider, a veteran Tasmanian forester and a Snowy Mountains community leader are the latest names on the speaking program for the 2026 Forestry Australia Symposium, three sharply different vantage points on the question at the heart of …
Wednesday 01 July 2026
Four of Australia’s most senior forest scientists have questioned the evidence underpinning native forest harvesting bans. In a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Australian Forestry, they argue that closures of commercial native forest harvesting on public land …