Maintenance workers at Australian Paper’s Maryvale mill in the Latrobe Valley have agreed to a wage freeze and a four-day week as part of a new workplace agreement. About 160 workers have voted to accept the deal, after more than a year of negotiations. Mark Nelson from Australian Paper said the wage cuts would save …
AUTHOR Jared Diamond, in his groundbreaking 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, has a small seven or eight-page section on the creation and development of the Forest Stewardship Council in the early 1990s, and its progress to 2003-2004. He concludes that: “The effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Council has received the …
And the data will reveal how much carbon woodlands store
Water and forests are inextricably linked. Pressures on forests from population growth and climate change are increasing risks to forests and their aquatic ecosystem services (AES). There is a need to incorporate AES in forest management but there is considerable uncertainty about how to do so. Approaches that manage forest ecosystem services such as fiber, …
A U.S. Forest Service researcher is studying the use of biochar in forests. Research is underway that could lead to more uses for waste wood, a U.S. Forest Service researcher says. Instead of thinning stands to boost productivity and burning the resulting slashpiles, researchers believe turning it into biochar, a supplement made of charred biological …
Environment groups in East Gippsland are imploring DELWP and its Minister to immediately apply more environmental considerations to its planned burns. The old hectare based burns have been acknowledged as financially costly, with minimal safety outcomes but significant ecological losses. “If this is the new improved risk-based approach, then there is no difference to the …
The Bob Brown Foundation will continue to call for secure protection for endangered species and native forests in the wake of Forestry Tasmania’s comprehensive failure to gain Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. “Forestry Tasmania has failed to gain FSC certification due to their woefully destructive logging practices. These include an ongoing clearfell and burn regime …
Fail on key environmental criteria for Forestry Tasmania’s FSC bid – Proposed solutions quite inadequate Forestry Tasmania has proved completely inadequate in their FSC audit, released today, on key environmental criteria of: rare and threatened species management – especially the Swift Parrot and Masked Owl, old growth forest logging, and identification and management of high …
There are hopes a tracking program involving up to 100 domestic cats in the New South Wales central tablelands will help protect some of the region’s native species. The Central Tablelands Local Land Services project will kick off in March at Lithgow and will involve attaching GPS devices on cats for up to 11 days. …
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people. by jim robbins In Borneo, an island shared by Indonesia and Malaysia, some of the world’s …
