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Monitoring native forest logging and burning in Lutruwita / Tasmania

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Forestry Tasmania's 2026/29 logging plan

The state of Tasmania's forests

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Forestry Tasmania's
Three Year Plan 2026-29

The forest
killing plans

Endangered species’ habitat, critical carbon storehouses, ancient eucalyptus forests and Australia’s largest temperate rainforests are on Forestry Tasmania’s newly released logging target list.
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  • Native forest logging coupes listed to be destroyed
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  • Newly listed coupes added to the plan
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  • Different threatened species call these forests home
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  • of native forest scheduled for logging across the state
  • Wentworth Hills logging coupe WW041C. 2026

snapshot of the numbers

The conservation problems with this logging list

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  • native forest coupes on the 3-year plan
  • Incl. 160 new coupes
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  • hectares of native forest on the plan
  • public land, statewide
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  • coupes overlap Swift Parrot breeding habitat
  • 5,466.7 ha affected
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  • hectares of Takayna scheduled to be logged
  • 21 rainforest & eucalypt areas

Breakdown of the destruction

Where our native forests are going

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  • of native forests scheduled to be logged for woodchips (roughly 1,027,000 tonnes)
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  • of all proposed coupes carry a quota for peeler logs (used to produce sheets of veneer) destined for Ta Ann (13,616.5 ha)
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  • of the total harvest is allocated to Ta Ann as peeler logs
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  • of taxpayer-funded roading proposed to open up further native forest for logging
  • Stage one
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  • Pulp log — sent straight to chipping without entering a sawmill at all
  • Stage two
~ 0 %
  • Sawlogs that do reach a mill — 45 to 75% of each log becomes woodchips in the milling process
  • What remains
< 0 %
  • Of the entire harvest that becomes dressed sawn timber — the stated purpose of native forest logging

The real figure

79.6% goes directly to woodchips. But the true figure is closer to 89%.

The 79.6% figure only counts logs sent directly to the chipper. It doesn’t account for what happens inside the sawmill — between 45% and 75% ends up as waste or woodchips during the milling process.

~ 0 %
  • Ends up as woodchips or pulp
< 0 %
  • Becomes dressed sawn timber
  • Calculated by applying Ryan 1999 (Appendix C) select-grade recovery rates to each sawlog category in the 2026/28 harvest data. Cat 1 sawlog: 45–55% to chips. Cat 2: 55–60%. Cat 8: 70–75%. Cat 4: estimated 60% (no published benchmark). Peeler log residue (~50%) counted separately. Figures are indicative ranges; midpoint used above.

Case study · Central Highlands

Eighty-six coupes, one region — including 26 at Wentworth Hills alone

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  • coupes scheduled to be logged
26
  • of those within Wentworth Hills
1168
  • hectares within the Wentworth Hills area alone
  • Wentworth Hills WW007B
  • Derwent Upper DU019B
  • Wentworth Hills WW007B
  • Derwent Upper DU019B
  • Derwent Upper DU019B
  • Mount Bertha MB025B

Case study · Takayna

Twenty-one rainforests still waiting on World Heritage protection

Takayna holds twenty-one areas of critical rainforest and eucalyptus forest urgently in need of World Heritage protection — yet they remain on the government’s targeted logging list. Since 2019, fifty hectares of endangered species habitat have already been destroyed here for Ta Ann, Brittons and woodchipping.

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  • rainforest & eucalypt forests under threat
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  • hectares scheduled to be logged
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  • hectares already destroyed since 2019

Forced to the brink, for woodchips

152 coupes are verified habitat for threatened species

Swift Parrot

  • Critically endangered · 95 coupes overlap breeding habitat

Masked Owl

  • Endangered · hollow nesting habitat under threat

Tasmanian Devil

  • Endangered · denning & foraging habitat loss

Quoll (spp.)

  • Threatened · wide-ranging forest predator

152 coupes across this plan are recognised and verified habitat for threatened species — spanning 41 different threatened species in total.

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