We are custodians of our plantation and native forests. Our native forest buffers provide a range of conservation, community and other values. We actively protect these native forests and never harvest them.
While it's easy to imagine we are solely focused on growing plantation trees, we are also strongly committed to protecting and enhancing the native forest buffers that weave throughout our plantations and out into other state forests, national parks, defence reserves and private forests. These native forest buffers create wildlife corridors, protect watercourses, act as natural firebreaks and promote biodiversity within our plantations.
Our team considers their health and protection a priority and undertakes a range of management activities to safeguard these areas, including:
- prescribed burning to achieve a balance between protecting and enhancing biodiversity values and protecting neighbouring communities and our plantation assets
- weed and wildling management to maintain the integrity of the native forest
- regular water quality testing
- wildlife surveys.