The Latest Breaking News from VicForests

By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at last be safe from chainsaws. And there will be no shortage of wood – there’s more than enough plantation timber…

The Victorian government will phase out native timber logging by the end of the year and is expected to announce a transition package in the state budget.

More than $200 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government as it accelerates plans to phase out native timber logging.

A government agency that allegedly spied on a woman to "dig up dirt" is slammed by Victoria's Information Commissioner, who says the agency should apologise for its response to her request for information about the alleged spying.

Australia has the world’s worst mammal extinction record, with nearly 40 native mammal species lost since European colonisation. By contrast, the United States has lost three.

Australian unions have leapt to the defence of workers facing the axe over the closure of Australia's last white paper manufacturing plant.

Dwindling timber supplies have been blamed for Australia's last white paper manufacturer shutting its eastern Victorian plant.

Australia's sole office paper manufacturing could cease operations if its foreign owners decide to permanently shut its Latrobe Valley white paper mill line. Tomorrow's decision could affect up to 200 workers and comes after a halt in operations in native timber logging in Victoria.

Paper companies are scrambling to source foreign white paper after a lack of domestic timber supply dented production at Australia's only white paper mill.

ACF report comes as countries at Cop15 prepare global target requiring businesses and financial institutions to reveal how supply chains and portfolios affect nature

If we learnt anything from the past federal election, it’s that Australians care about climate change and nature. A survey released this week suggests the same dynamic is at play as we head into the Victorian state election.