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Everytime we use Australian sustainable native timber, we are also choosing NOT to support catastrophic illegal logging overseas. According to Interpol Illegal logging contributes between 15 and 30% of the world wood trade every year – and is believed by United Nations experts to range from US$30 to US$100 Billion a year. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) believes illegal logging directly contributes to funding many criminal groups, including African terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram.

Mick Harrington will become Forest Wood Communities Australia’s new Executive Officer from July 1.

The real forest defenders are the losers in the disastrous decision to close native forestry.

The real forest defenders are the losers in the disastrous decision to close native forestry.

A family day to be held in Bairnsdale on Sunday is an opportunity for forest communities to come together and support each other during a time of great uncertainty and distress.

Plans for a Koala Park and ‘transitioning’ native forestry to plantations are unnecessary and unworkable, threatening the livelihood of thousands of timber workers in the state.

Unless we all pull together and fight, then our sustainable, certified, world-class native timber sector which supports so many Australian regional communities will be lost forever.

When you’re moving out of your hometown or seeing your favourite shop close or supporting your partner who’s lost their job, can you say you did all you could?

The current timber supply shortages in Victoria brought about by vexatious legal action against VicForests is causing anguish among the people of Orbost, where 24% of its workforce faces the axe.

The current timber supply shortages in Victoria brought about by vexatious legal action against VicForests is causing anguish among the people of Orbost, where 24% of its workforce faces the axe.