MEDIA RELEASE
19 August 2021
National Science Week 2021
The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) is celebrating the role that forest science plays in ensuring a healthy and resilient future for Australian society and the environment for National Science …
MEDIA RELEASE
16 August 2021
IFA/AFG National Conference goes hybrid to increase accessibility
Your Forests, Our Future
11-14 October 2021
Forest scientists, professionals and growers in lockdown need not fear about missing the IFA/AFG National Conference of the year.
The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) has announced …
MEDIA RELEASE
10 August 2021
United Nations climate change report calls for urgent action and forestry management must be part of the solution The professional association representing some 1,000 forest scientists, researchers and professional forest land managers, the …
MEDIA RELEASE
13 July 2021
Australian Forestry climbs journal ranks, impact factor leaps Newly released analytics show that the impact of Australian Forestry, the journal of The Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA), rose significantly last year, highlighting the journal’s important role in the evidence-based approach of forestry.
The …
MEDIA RELEASE
5 July 2021
Australia’s best and brightest young forestry professionals awarded scholarships to attend IFA/AFG National Conference
The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) is delighted to announce that 21 Future Foresters and forestry professionals have been awarded scholarships to attend the …
OPINION PIECE
2 July 2021
This opinion piece appeared in the Weekly Times and Ballarat Courier.
The Victorian Government’s long-deferred decision to announce more National Parks in the West of Victoria last week dodges the real challenges of managing …
MEDIA RELEASE
11 May 2021
Study highlights need to rethink forest policy and management for preventing wildfires A new study that found landscape spatial patterns and fire weather drove the severity of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, not past timber …
MEDIA RELEASE
17 March 2021
A paper published yesterday in Australian Forestry has called for the development of a new shared vision for the management of Australia’s forests. The paper Reshaping forest management in Australia to provide nature-based solutions to global challenges, by Dr William Jackson and …
MEDIA RELEASE
10 March 2021
Active and adaptive forest management key to addressing ecosystem decline The peak organisation representing some 1,000 scientific and professional forest land managers in Australia has told the Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria that only active and adaptive land management supported …
MEDIA RELEASE
28 February 2021
Foresters concerns confirmed – UTas researchers and academics to undergo integrity training The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers thanks the University of Tasmania for its thorough investigation of our concerns that a recent academic paper …