The illegal timber trade is a huge global business worth up to US$150 billion yearly. One way to curb it is by convincing consumers in wealthy countries that buying contraband wood products is wrong.
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It’s thanks to decomposition brought about by beetles and fungi that we’re not all buried under dead organic matter.
The outcry over the government’s plan to allow wood burning from native forests under the revamped Renewable Energy Target belies the fact that woodchips can be useful and sustainable if harvested responsibly.
Although it may seem counter-intuitive, it would be better if we built buildings from wood than from concrete, brick, aluminium and steel. We use millions of tonnes of these modern materials every year…
A waste product from paper-making could be a safer, greener alternative to using the harmful chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in…
Is there a role for logging in ensuring the future of the world’s tropical forests and their rich diversity of plants and animals? For many this idea is absurd, because timber production achieving conservation…
For many years, individual consumers, industries and governments have all purchased printing and writing paper made with a high recycled-fibre content. Why? Because they believe it is the most responsible…
The issue of firewood management has recently attracted renewed attention in Victoria, where the State Government has changed the regulations on collecting firewood from State Forests. Firewood is cheap…
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Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Wageningen University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
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Environmental Biologist, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Senior Associate, Centre for International Forestry Research
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne
