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Traditionally management of Australian forests focussed on the needs of the wood fibre based timber and paper industries. But today Australian governments acknowledge the importance of management for multiple uses. Forest based ecotourist businesses and commercial apiarists (bee keepers) depend on old growth forests. www.bigvolcano.com.au/ercentre |
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Forest Trends is a non-profit organisation
based in Washington D.C. They focus on
sustainable forest management and forest conservation by promoting incentives
that diversify the trade in forest products away from timber to a broader
range of services and products: Indigenous people's knowledge of the qualities of native forest species emphasises the importance of preserving old growth forests for the collection of pharmaceutical, seed and food products. The Institute for Culture and Ecology site contains information and references about non-wood forest products: So does the site established by the Forestry and Community Forestry Programmes of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): Raintree promotes businesses involved with sustainable and renewable forest products, especially rainforest plants with pharmaceutical properties, edible fruits, nuts and useful oils instead of logging forests for timber or clearing them for farming: |
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Non-commercial values of forests as wilderness, public parks, Aboriginal land, for aesthetic appeal, bushwalking and so on are promoted by many organisations of conservationists, naturalists and environmental activists. The government's Environment Australia has an interest in parks: The site of the government's Parks Victoria includes lists of links to interstate parks and relevant educational and recreational service organisations: The Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) is an ENGO that encourages and supports park conservation. The VNPA site contains links to naturalists' groups. The VNPA also spearheads the Box-Ironbark Woodlands Campaign, promoting awareness of the plight of Victoria's most endangered type of bushland: The Trust for Nature (Victoria) is an ENGO that promotes the conservation of private land with significant ecological values. The Trust for Nature helps owners put conservation covenants on land titles, provides management advice and publishes a monthly newsletter and a quarterly Conservation Bulletin that advertises conservation properties that are for sale. Many of the land covenants are on forests and woodlands: |
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Interpretation Australia is a society of interpreters of Australia's natural and cultural environments. They design informative and entertaining guided walks, talks, signs, displays, pamphlets, theatrical performances and electronic presentations to raise environmental and cultural awareness. Interpreters include forest based ecotourists and conservationists who are concerned to raise consciousness of the complex issues associated with forest management and use: www.interpretationaustralia.asn.au Since 1974 the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (WASA) has fostered the sharing of ideas, research, practice and experience of wildlife art across all visual media and styles. WASA holds an annual exhibition of the work of artists who specialise in native wildlife: Wild Spaces is an annual environmental and social justice film festival—organised by Friends of the Earth (FoE)—that travels throughout Australia and always features some forest films: |
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