MEDIA RELEASE
11 December, 2020
K’gari Bushfire Review opportunity to address fire response and prevention shortcomings
The peak organisation representing some 1,000 professional and scientific forest land managers in Australia has welcomed the announcement of the K’gari (Fraser Island) Bushfire Review, hoping it will be a catalyst for …
MEDIA RELEASE
6 November, 2020
IFA/AFG respond to Tasmanian doctors’ forestry claims The peak organisation representing some 1,000 professional and scientific forest land managers in Australia have responded to a public letter from Tasmanian doctors calling for Premier Peter Gutwein to end the harvesting of native forests.
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MEDIA RELEASE
30 October 2020
Underwhelming Bushfire Royal Commission report lacks vision needed to address Australia’s bushfire woes
The Bushfire Royal Commission’s final report is totally underwhelming and fails to address the current imbalance between fire prevention and fire response says the Institute of Foresters (IFA/AFG), the professional association representing some …
MEDIA RELEASE
26 October, 2020
Bush Fire Royal Commission task to simply recommend findings of previous 58 inquiries
The professional association representing some 1,000 forest scientists, researchers and forest professional managers, the Institute of Foresters (IFA/AFG) has called on the Bush Fire Royal Commission to simply audit and …
MEDIA RELEASE
21 October 2020
The professional association representing some 1,000 forest scientists, researchers and professional forest managers, the Institute of Foresters (IFA/AFG) have highlighted a near one third cut to university funding of environmental studies courses as being short sighted.
IFA/AFG President Bob Gordon said at a …
MEDIA RELEASE
8 October, 2020
Ecological forest management protects forest flora and fauna, not a threat
The professional association representing some 1,000 forest scientists, researchers and professional forest land managers, the Institute of Foresters (IFA/AFG), has highlighted there are no forest operations in Australia that have been identified …
MEDIA RELEASE
12 August 2020
The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) have welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to expand eligibility criteria and extend the application timeframe for the $75,000 Primary Producer bushfire recovery grants.
IFA/AFG Vice President and Chair of the Forest Growers Committee, …
OPINION PIECE
15 July 2020
Australia’s fire-prone landscape deserves better land and fire management. Just like the 242 related Inquiries and Reviews conducted in Australia before it, the current Royal Commission looking into natural disasters in Australia risks being held back by political expediency, community apathy, short memories and …
MEDIA RELEASE
7 July 2020
Understanding the specialist skill set needed to fight forest fires and investing in year-round land management and fire prevention activity is the best way to avoid the widescale loss of lives, property and …
MEDIA RELEASE
17 June 2020
The organisation representing forest managers and private forest owners has welcomed calls for action on ecological thinning of regrowth forests in the south-west of Western Australia. Institute of Foresters and Australian Forest Growers spokesman John Clarke said that thinning …