Plantations already supply the majority of our domestic timber needs. A recent study of the wood products industry in Victoria predicts that the amount of sawlogs will double over the 1990's, with a further doubling possible in the following decade. This situation is similar throughout Australia. Multinational woodchipping companies are keeping the native forest timber industry in business. While the timber industry continues to stubbornly persist in logging native forests, it is consequently destroying our priceless natural heritage and actually reducing employment.
Tourism based on our spectacular native forests has enormous potential.
Since the early 1970's, despite an ever-increasing volume of wood being extracted from our native forests, overall employment in the logging industry has decreased substantially. There is great potential for the timber industry to expand without logging native forests. Never use any Australian timber unless it is grown on plantations. The Case for Plantations , by Sean Cadman of the Native Forest Network . The Wilderness Society is just one of many conservation groups which wants to see an immediate end to all old growth forest logging.