What does the future hold for our native forests? 

What does the future hold for our native forests?

Nightlife: featuring Australia’s native forests.

Philip Clark
ABC
50mins 37secs. 03.04.2019.

There are estimates that native forests cover about 19 percent of Australia’s land mass. Aside from providing a resource for the timber industry, native forests also help provide water, a home for native species, a destination for tourists, and operate as a carbon storage. So what’s their future? Professor David Lindenmayer, a Forest Ecologist with the Fenner School of the Environmental at the Australian National University, also an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; and by Joe Fontaine, an ecologist and Lecturer in Environmental Science at Murdoch University joined Nightlife to look into that question.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live, the Yuin Nation, Wolgalu, Ngarigo, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people(s), and pay our respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.