The Tasmanian government is being urged to halt the signing of new long-term native forest logging contracts ahead of changes ...

Exclusive: Analysis recommends the government stop subsidising its forestry arm and generate carbon credits, a move likely to be opposed by industry and conservationists Ending native forest logging ...

MARK COLVIN: The controversy over the logging of Tasmania's old growth forests has reached the United Nations. The UN's World Heritage Committee is meeting in New Zealand, and today it ordered an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1967, catastrophic bushfires in Tasmania killed dozens of people – and very nearly destroyed Hobart. A year later, W.D. Jackson ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Bonn in Germany, yesterday unanimously called on Australia to ensure that logging and mining remained banned across the “entire” 1.58 million hectare ...