Monitoring native forest logging and burning in Lutruwita / Tasmania
Logging Now
Logging for a new road now
Partially Logged
Threatened
Logged
Defended and Logged
Native forests logged for woodchips (2025–2028)
0tonnes
Already 0% of the estimated 2,983,400 tonnes.
Native forests at risk (2025–2028)
40,304.4hectares
of Tasmania’s native forests are scheduled to be logged over the next three years.
Threatened species at risk
1,903observations
of threatened species have been recorded in forests scheduled to be logged between 2025 and 2028.
Lost carbon absorption capacity
688,001tonnes CO₂ / year
would be absorbed by these forests each year if they were left standing.
Scheduled volumes
(All figures in'000. Sawlog and veneer in m3, pulpwood in tonnes)
Pulp
The vast majority of timber removed from a logged area is taken by truck to woodchip mills and exported to Taiwan and China. The public is not told what these woodchips are used for, it could be paper, cardboard or put in forest furnaces.
Peeler
Logs that are processed in a mill in Smithton, Tasmania by controversial logging company called Ta Ann from Sarawak, Malaysia. Ta Ann turns the timber into veneer which is then exported to Sarawak and made into plywood and exported to Japan. Or the veneer is processed in the company plywood mill in Smithton and exported. Peeler logs are also exported to Sarawak as whole logs from Tasmania to another controversial Sarawak logging company called Patriarch & Sons, their parent company is Shin Yang.
Special timbers
a very small percentage of timber from Tasmania’s logged forests are processed into sawn timber by sawmillers. Either Tasmanian based or exported across Bass Strait to sawmills in Victoria and NSW.
CATs Sawlogs
a very small percentage of timber from Tasmania’s logged forests are processed into sawn timber by sawmillers. Either Tasmanian based or exported across Bass Strait to sawmills in Victoria and NSW.
Veneer
Logs that are processed into thin veneer in Tasmanian mills.
