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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In the aftermath of fires or logging, conservation needs to focus on recovering the health of the remaining vegetation, not just the size of the forest or woodland.
Agreements between the Commonwealth and state governments that protect native forests are based on hopelessly out-of-date information. It's a huge mistake to renew them without assessment.
The federal government is considering watering-down laws against importing illegal timber, but this flies in the face of international evidence.
How do you determine the financial benefit of cutting a tree down, versus leaving it standing? Environmental accounting offers some insight.
Environmental law and natural resource experts respond to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposals to shrink four national monuments and allow logging, fishing and other activities in six more.
A new report calls U.S. forests an undervalued asset for slowing climate change. It warns that they are being degraded by logging for wood, paper and fuel, particularly in the Southeast.
Forests are valuable for many uses, including timber, clean water, wildlife habitat and recreation. Stresses on U.S. forests include wildfires, pest invasions and development of private lands.
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
Illegal logging is a serious threat but new ways of detecting illegal timber could help save global forests.
It's important to close roads from further vehicle use after the end of logging operations. But these roads ought to be re-opened when the next phase of logging takes place in each area of forest.
More logging won't help Bialowieza fight off spruce bark beetles. Let's let the forest adapt and evolve naturally.
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe must work hard to protect their native forests from deforestation.
From drought to economic slowdown, 2016 promises a mixed bag for the world's forests.
China needs to do more to manage the balance between conservation and tourism to protect its rich biodiversity.
Africa needs to step up the protection of its tropical forests.
The Renewable Energy Target now includes wood waste from forestry. But a more sustainable use of Australia's native forests would be to leave them alone and earn carbon credits from the avoided emissions.
The Leadbeater's has been formally listed as critically endangered. But unless clearfelling in the possums' stronghold stops, it will continue down the road of extinction.
Whoever wins power in Victoria’s election tomorrow will no doubt have a long to-do list. Here’s an urgent item: protect the mountain ash forests of the state’s Central Highlands. We have discovered that…
Tasmania’s government has repealed the state’s forestry “peace deal”, removing around 400,000 hectares of forests from reserves…
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Research Fellow - School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Ecology, Australian National University
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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David Bowman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Environmental Change Biology, University of Tasmania
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Economist, Fenner School, Australian National University
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Executive Director, Long Term Ecological Research Network; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Dean of Science, Southern Cross University
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Director of the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation
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Intern at the Centre for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Santiago, Chile; Research Assistant, Centre for Resources Energy and Environmental Law, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
