The Latest Breaking News from Sustainable Timber Tasmania

Indigenous activist 'obliged to save slaughtered kin'

An Aboriginal woman whose attempt to set up a court hearing on Country was unsuccessful has spoken about her obligation to protest forests.

AAP · Jul 8

Forestry death highlights 'conflicting pressures'

Several failures have been identified in the lead-up to an experienced forestry worker being struck and killed by a falling tree.

AAP · Sep 12, 2025

Old-growth trees could be logged under native expansion

A proposed expansion of native forestry could include areas of land home to old-growth trees, endangered animals and Aboriginal heritage.

AAP · Dec 4, 2024

Bob Brown, activists fight protest trespass charges

Former Greens leader Bob Brown and two other activists are fighting trespass charges over an anti-logging protest in Tasmania.

AAP · Dec 4, 2023

Native forest logging ban in Tasmania could save state $72m, pro-market thinktank says

Analysis recommends the government stop subsidising its forestry arm and generate carbon credits, a move likely to be opposed by industry and conservationists

The Guardian - AU · Nov 29, 2023

Huge centuries-old tree being trucked through Hobart CBD prompts calls for logging law reform

Environmentalists want Tasmanian government to follow Victoria and WA and end native forest logging

The Guardian - AU · Oct 30, 2023

‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 15, 2023

Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged

Rob Blakers says he was ‘surprised then furious’ that trees in foraging and feeding habitat for birds, whose numbers are down to just 750, were being destroyed

The Guardian - AU · Jun 27, 2023

Residents lodge complaints, leave Maydena due to regeneration burns nearby

Residents of a rural Tasmanian town were told to either leave, or wear masks, when dense "acrid" smoke blanketed the valley following more than 115 hectares of regeneration burns.

ABC News · Apr 9, 2023

Mountain biking Enduro World Series taking place at popular Maydena Bike Park bordering logging coupe

Maydena Bike Park is hosting the 2023 round of the Enduro World Series next month, but there are increasing concerns about Sustainable Timber Tasmania logging operations in nearby.

ABC News · Feb 28, 2023