Honey Bee Industry backs Regional Forest Agreements as the best way to manage our multi-use forests
Australia’s Honey Bee Industry has backed Australia’s Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) framework as the best way of ensuring our multi-use forests are sustainably managed to benefit the whole community. Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) CEO, Mr Ross Hampton, welcomed the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council’s (AHBIC) media release today committing to work with the forestry […]
Carbon storage potential of timber buildings highlighted by Labor’s Climate Plan
Federal Labor’s Climate Change Action Plan has highlighted the enormous potential of Australian timber to help meet national emissions reduction targets set out by all Parties. “The ALP plan includes $40 million for the development of new Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) methodologies. A methodology for timber construction should be at the top of any queue,” Chief […]
AFPA CEO’s reappointment to UN FAO forestry advisory body reinforces Australian sector’s sustain…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), Mr Ross Hampton, has been reappointed for a third consecutive term to the international body which advises the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on matters relating to sustainable management of forest industries globally. Mr Hampton sits with representatives from: South Africa, […]
Climate Proofing Australia welcomes Labor’s commitment to climate action on the land, reinvigorati…
Climate Proofing Australia (CPA) welcomes the Federal Opposition’s climate change policy package that delivers on several of CPA’s policy priorities, including reinvigorating the Carbon Farming Initiative, developing new CFI methodologies, and creating “premium” carbon offsets to incentivise projects that deliver multiple benefits. CPA is a conservation and industry alliance comprised of Farmers for Climate Action, […]
Deputy Prime Minister throws support behind South West Slopes Regional Forestry Hub
Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Nationals, Michael McCormack, has backed a Regional Forestry Hub in the South West Slopes (Tumut-Tumbarumba region) of southern NSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), Mr Ross Hampton said today. In a letter released today by the South West Slopes’ Softwoods Working Group (SWG), […]
Climate Proofing Australia welcomes $30m fund for carbon and biodiversity benefits on farms
Climate Proofing Australia (CPA) welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement of a $30 million pilot Agriculture Biodiversity Stewardship Program, and urges for more to be done to incentivise carbon projects that deliver the co-benefits of biodiversity, productivity, water quality and landholders and employment. Climate Proofing Australia (CPA) is a conservation and industry alliance comprised of […]
AFPA welcomes funding for forest industry R&D projects
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) welcomes the recent announcement by the Federal and South Australian Governments, of over $5 million in combined funding and industry support for the second round of forest industry related R&D projects, through the Mount Gambier National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI) centre, Chief Executive Officer of AFPA, Mr […]
Great Koala National Park a $757 million and 2000 job loss to NSW economy
Independent economic modelling of the impact of the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW North Coast has found it could lead to a $757 million a year hit to the NSW economy and cut almost 2000 jobs, devastating communities across the region where the timber industry is a major employer. The Ernst & […]
International Day of the Forests should serve as reminder for all Parties to support growth of ‘ri…
Today is the International Day of the Forests, a time to celebrate the great economic, social and environmental work of Australia’s forest industries and an opportunity to remind all political parties, that more trees need to be planted to ensure a strong forest industries sector into the future, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest […]
NSW ALP’s flawed ‘Great Koala National Park’ won’t save koalas, just devastate North Coast c…
The peak industry groups representing NSW’s timber and forest products industries slammed NSW Labor’s recommitment today to lock up large swathes of sustainably managed production forest under the guise of the Great Koala National Park, with no evidence that it will lead to better conservation outcomes for koalas. Timber NSW General Manager Maree McCaskill and […]