Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says

Part of Tasmania’s old growth forests. The Climate Change Authority’s report has found that ceasing old-growth logging is a necessary step to meet the lower end of Australia’s emissions targets. Photograph: Rob Blakers/The Guardian

The Albanese government is being urged to end old growth logging “at a minimum” in order to meet a 2035 emissions reduction target recommended by the Climate Change Authority.

One of Australia’s most respected forest scientists, Prof David Lindenmayer, of the Australian National University, has also written to the authority questioning why it did not go further in its advice and recommend an end to all native forest logging.