As Tasmania's Chief Forest Practices Officer, Anne Chuter plays a pivotal role at the independent Forest Practices Authority (FPA), balancing industry requirements with sustainable environmental practices in timber harvesting and conservation.

"Sustainable Forest management is about environmental values, economic values, social values, and trying to embed all of those different things when you're doing forest practices planning and forestry operations. Around Australia or internationally, the Tasmanian system is held in high regard, and a lot of that is about our emphasis on planning before doing, getting out in the field, finding out what's in the forest before the forest harvesting operation commences, and that's a really unique part of our system."

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Links & Show Notes:

• The Forest Practices Authority (FPA)
• The Forest Practices Code
• The Forest Act Authority
• Fred Duncan Scientific Contributions
• Tasmanian forests compared to global counterparts
• Sustainable Timber Tasmania (previously Forestry Tasmania)
• The Tasmanian Forest Practices System
• Eagles Nest Reserve Requirement
• Threatened Species
• Permanent Native Forest Estate Policy
• State of the Forests Tasmania 2022
• Hosted by Claire Bennett
• Produced by Simon Brooke

Episode Sponsors:

• Tasmanian Timber
• Britton Timbers