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Timber: natural, renewable, sustainable
- Unlike other building materials wood can be harvested, re-grown and re-harvested in an average person’s lifetime.
- Timber absorbs and stores carbon for many decades.
- Nearly half of the dry weight of timber is carbon, making it a carbon positive building product.
- Timber has the lowest embodied energy of all building products.
- Timber waste can be used as a carbon neutral biofuel, reducing the negative impact of carbonemitting fossil fuels.
Australian forestry: a sustainably managed resource
- Australian forests are protected by strict Federal and State controls and regulations ensuring that there is a healthy balance between long term conservation and sustainable forestry management.
- Australian forests are protected by strict Federal and State controls and regulations ensuring that there is a healthy balance between long term conservation and sustainable forestry management.
- Australian Forestry (149 million hectares) has one of the highest land cover areas per capita in the world (14 times the world average).
- Only 6.3% (9.4 million hectares) of total Australian forestry is available for timber harvesting each year. Of the forestry available for harvesting only 1% is harvested each year.
- Over the last decade Australian public nature conservation reserves increased by 39% - creating a world class forest reserve system.
- Australian public nature conservation reserves, locked away for future generations, are nearly two and a half times larger than production forestry.
- Australian plantation and commercial forests absorb an equivalent amount of carbon to take 9 million cars off the road each year.
- Younger trees in active re-growth forestry absorb more CO² than mature trees.
- Increased usage of wood products from sustainably managed forests is a positive step towards reducing the effects of climate change.
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