The Conversation

More than half of NSW’s forests and woodlands are gone as ongoing logging increases extinction risks, study shows

Since European colonisation, 29 million hectares (54%) of the forests and woodlands that once existed in New South Wales have been destroyed. A further 9 million ha have been degraded in the past two ...
The New York Times

Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging. Environmentalists Object.

Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines. By Anna Kramer Across a patch of the ...
Mongabay

Illegal logging footprint in the Amazon expanded by a fifth, report finds

Illegal logging in the Amazon jumped by 19% over the past year, according to a new report. Between August 2022 and July 2023, some 126,000 hectares, or 311,000 acres, of forest were cleared illicitly, ...
The Conversation

Logging devastated Victoria’s native forests – and new research shows 20% has failed to grow back

Following the end of native logging in Victoria on January 1 2024, the state’s majestic forests might be expected to regenerate and recover naturally. But our new research shows that’s not always the ...
Mongabay

Forests & finance: communities turn to tree-planting, zero-logging, and mushrooms to protect forests

If you liked this story, share it with other people. EBIENG-EDZUA, Gabon — There is no logging in the forest managed by residents of Ebieng-Edzua, in northeastern Gabon. For the past decade, this ...