Fred Gale is a member of the Forest Stewardship Council and a founding member of the Australian national inititive, FSC-Australia. On 18 May 2011, The Wilderness Society suspended its participation in ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has roundly criticized Australia’s proposal to remove 74,000 hectares of temperate rainforest from the World Heritage Committee. In a report ...

Fred Gale is a founding member of FSC-Australia and a member of FSC International and has undertaken consulting work for both organisations. He was a recipient of a 2004 ARC Discovery Grant to ...

This is by no means a new battle: in fact, Tasmanian industrial foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island’s forests for decades. The battle—some ...

More than 150 people gathered at a public meeting in Hobart on April 3 to discuss the problems and solutions related to Forestry Tasmania, the government-owned company established to manage the ...

Tasmania's Forest Contractors Association is making a plea to get politics out of the industry and move on. The Association is one of the signatories to the Tasmanian Forests Agreement and chief ...

Some environmentalists have justified their support for the forest peace deal — passed by Tasmania’s Legislative Assembly on November 23 — on the grounds of not letting “perfect” become the “enemy of ...

THE United Nations has delivered a rebuke to the Australian government, rejecting its request to cut Tasmania's World Heritage Area so it can be logged. The WHC, meeting in Doha, declined an ...

This video captures a wallaby standing quietly among native plants in the forests of Tasmania, filmed in 4K. Includes close-up footage with natural forest ambiance, no narration, and no on-screen text ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has voted to protect all Tasmanian forest from logging — striking down the Australian government’s attempt to withdraw 183,000 acres (74,000 hectares) from the U.N.

EVEN for a leader who has made political combat his hallmark, Tony Abbott’s speech attacking forest conservation was provocative. On March 4th the Australian prime minister told a gathering of forest ...