Timber Communities Australia Ltd
Consulting in Canberra

CA’s focus is unmistakable from other organizations due to its strong community emphasis. The mission of CA is to represent and act in the best interests of communities which are associated with forest and timber sectors in Australia and to encourage a healthy and sustainable coming for those communities and their associated forests. Communications and advocacy in the public and policy arena which supports and adds weight to local and regional timber community initiatives. It does nothing to serve our society or to urge sustainability. Timber is a beautiful, versatile, renewable and 100 spontaneous material capable to be grown in environmentally sustainable forests and plantations of various kinds. This means the embedded carbon emissions’ within timber products is relatively low. Because our society has a goal to diminish net carbon emissions, there is a need for all Australians, whether urban or rural, to grasp that sustainable managed forests and timber products are a immense asset to aid us come our goal. It must be grown in a sustainable way and harvested in a sustainable way and consumers need assurance about that. Australia has world class people busy in our industry, quick to adopt new information and knowledge about better ways to do things. The organization that evolved into Timber Communities Australia sprang from grassroots community members who knew that Australian society was changing and that they needed to band together to be heard, as largely urban populations were increasingly driving forest policies. A very concise history of this notable organization follows. Brought to life by that insignificant group of motivated people, the Forest Protection Society (FPS) began in 1987. The leaders saw the need for a cohesive community voice for grassroots people as forest policies were felt to be ignoring the lives of the people most affected. Australian society had changed, so these regional communities that had for generations loved, lived and breathed in their local forests, set out to address the problem they faced through the Forest Protection Society. The FPS provided a structure so that the interests of timber community members who wanted the dual outcomes of a healthy forest environment and a well forest based economy could be coordinated and represented to government, industry and the public. In the 1980’s there required to be an increase in public awareness and confidence in forestry via better communication. There was need for the public to understand the role of specialist forestry science (as healthy as other specialties) to inform the development of government forest policies and industry practices. All those things depend upon sustainable forestry. The aims, aspirations and structure all stayed the same and CA continued to press for sustainable futures in our forests, timber communities and industries. The maximum recent stage of organizational change was in 2013. This found that the need for a focused community network remained as pertinent as ever. So CA was entirely restructured during 2013 and 2014 below the stewardship of an interim board, which stood down once the fresh constitution was implemented. CA entered a totally fresh era in 2015 with those definite changes in deposit and recommenced activities in the public arena. Its role remains highly apropos providing a national, independent voice for members of timber communities in one of the core sectors that underpins the coming well being of our society and our planet.

The organization that evolved into Timber Communities Australia sprang from grassroots community members who knew that Australian society was changing and that they required to band together to be heard, as largely urban populations were increasingly driving forest policies. A very short history of this particular organization follows. Brought to life by that trivial group of motivated people, the Forest Protection Society (FPS) began in 1987. The leaders saw the need for a cohesive community voice for grassroots people as forest policies were felt to be ignoring the lives of the people most affected. Australian society had changed, so these regional communities that had for generations loved, lived and breathed in their local forests, set out to address the problem they faced through the Forest Concern Society. The FPS provided a structure so that the interests of timber community members who wanted the dual outcomes of a healthy forest environment and a well forest based economy could be coordinated and represented to government, industry and the public. The FPS brought a unified, informed voice to effectively get their side of the story into the public arena. It was also proactively occupied to educate and communicate with the public. In the 1980’s there required to be an amplify in public awareness and confidence in forestry via better communication. There was need for the public to comprehend the role of specialist forestry science (as healthy