MEDIA RELEASE
21 February 2020
The Institute of Foresters Australia and Australian Forest Growers has welcomed the Terms of Reference of the Royal Commission into Bushfires as signed off on by the Governor-General today but says action must be taken …
MEDIA RELEASE
31 January 2020
Summary
Suggestions a blanket no to recovery harvesting operations is too simplistic and a one size fits all approach should not be adopted.
A systematic plan that takes into consideration a range of matters such as protecting the diversity of the …
MEDIA RELEASE
16 January, 2020
Peak body for forest managers and growers releases key principles to understanding prescribed burning as a land management tool for bushfire mitigation (also known as hazard reduction burning, control burning and fuel reduction, amongst other names)
With the devastating bushfires continuing, the peak …
16 January 2020
The Adelaide Advertiser published a Letter to the Editor from IFA/AFG Member and Managing Director of Kangaroo Island Plantations Keith Lamb. I attended the Kangaroo Island fires in an active response role between 20 December and January 5, and remained on the …
MEDIA RELEASE
15 January 2020
The IFA/AFG issued a media release on Wednesday 15 January, which welcomed the announcement by the Federal Government of support packages of up to $75,000 grants for Primary Producers affected by the bushfire crisis.
“Our members appreciate …
MEDIA RELEASE
21 November, 2019
The Institute of Foresters of Australia is frustrated at the national broadcaster, once again, misrepresenting evidence to support dubious claims, this time in its story about water catchments. IFA President Bob Gordon has said …
MEDIA RELEASE
8 November, 2019
Australia’s premier professional body for forest scientists, forest managers and forest growers, the Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers has condemned the Andrews Government decision to end natural forestry in Victoria as ‘short-sighted.’
Bob Gordon, …
MEDIA RELEASE
11 July, 2019
The Victorian Government has ignored the concerns of rural communities in its rush to create more national parks.
The Institute of Foresters of Australia calls on Minister d’Ambrosio to direct the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) to follow its legislated charter which …
MEDIA RELEASE
1 January, 2019
Euan Ferguson, Victorian Chair of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA), says there is no benefit in creating a ‘Great Forest National Park’ in Victoria’s Central Highlands forests.
Mr Ferguson, said: …
MEDIA RELEASE
1 January, 2019
Please find link to a media release from the Institute of Foresters of Australia calling on the Federal and State Governments to fund further scientific research into the important and complex role that fire plays in the evolution and maintenance of Australian ecosystems. The Climate Council reports …