Australia’s endangered forests are being ‘stolen’ and sold in hardware and office stores

Thousands of hectares of state forest appear to have been logged illegally, an ABC investigation has found, amounting to what some say is the mass “theft” by a government-owned for-profit…

• By environment, science and technology reporter Michael Slezak and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Penny Timms
• ABC

Trees making up some of Victoria’s most endangered ecosystems are being felled and turned into building products, paper or wood chips by VicForests, which are then sold in retailers such as Bunnings and…

The apparently illegal logging is also threatening the habitats of some of the country’s most vulnerable species, including the Leadbeater’s possum, Victoria’s animal…

• Australia’s endangered…