On 23 May 2023, the Victorian Government announced that native timber harvesting will cease by 1 January 2024.

For the past 20 years, VicForests has been responsible for delivering sustainable forest management on behalf of the Victoria Government. In this time, we have managed the harvest, sale, and regrowing of timber from Victoria’s State forests.

VicForests has been certified to the Australian Forestry Standard for Sustainable Forest Management since 2007.

We continue to be responsible for monitoring and planning regeneration activities on previously harvested coupes. We will also continue to provide expertise to the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to deliver on their forest management objectives.

To read more about our activities prior to 1 January 2024, please visit our old website.