Federal Government cuts to university environmental studies short sighted

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 …

Forest management does not cause extinction

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 …

Private forest growers welcome expanded bushfire relief eligibility

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, …

Bushfire Royal Commission: Specialist skills and year round land management key to reducing risk

MEDIA RELEASE
7 July 2020

Support for thinning regrowth forests in the south-west

MEDIA RELEASE
17 June 2020

IFA/AFG supports clarification as a result of VicForests Federal Court case

MEDIA RELEASE
28 May 2021

IFA/AFG response to CRCNA Northern forestry and forest products industry situation analysis

MEDIA RELEASE
15 May 2020

Peak land management professionals issue support for bushfire recovery harvesting

MEDIA RELEASE
1 May 2020

The peak organisation for forest land managers and scientists, the Institute of Foresters Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) has reaffirmed its support of bushfire recovery harvesting subject to strict controls.

Earlier this year, the Institute of Foresters Australia released a position …

Bushfire Royal Commission: More lives at risk without prevention

MEDIA RELEASE
28 April 2020

Australia should urgently accept that bushfire prevention rather than suppression is the only way to avoid the widescale loss of lives, property and biodiversity experienced last summer according to the Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers (IFA/AFG).

The peak organisation …