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Loggers fell old, native forests on Australian island

Loggers cut down ancient native eucalyptus forests in Tasmania, including a 500-year-old tree in Huon Valley near Hobart in 2025.
This deforestation occurs amid legal harvesting by Sustainable Timber Tasmania, which manages public forests and harvests about 6,000 hectares annually.
Critics highlight environmental harm, noting the loss of breeding hollows needed by species like the critically endangered broad-tailed parrot.
Sustainable Timber Tasmania reports sowing 149 million seeds to regenerate forests while over 70 percent of felled native trees were made into wood chips exported mainly to China and Japan.
Protests involving 4,000 participants demand ending native forest logging due to its impacts on wildlife and ecosystems despite the industry’s economic value of around Aus$80 million annually.

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Loggers fell old, native forests on Australian island

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground -- all that remains of a eucalyptus tree that towered into the canopy for centuries.

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