Mark Poynter is a professional forester with 40 years experience. He
is a Fellow of the Institute of Foresters of Australia and his book, Going Green: Forests, fire, and a flawed conservation culture, was published by Connor Court in July 2018.
Questionable environmental science and ill-informed eco-activism now endangering Australia's forests
Environment - 8/02/2024 - 16 comments |
Native forestry closures betray a nation that is losing its way
Environment - 21/12/2023 - 8 comments |
Timber shortage decades in the making, but being worsened by 'save-the-forests' political ideology
Environment - 2/08/2021 - 24 comments |
Bob Brown legal challenge shines a light on decades of environmental misinformation
Environment - 16/02/2021 - 15 comments |
‘Bushfires’ Royal Commission – a predictable disappointment
Environment - 11/11/2020 - 13 comments |
Bunnings’ virtue signalling shows contempt for regional Australia
Environment - 17/07/2020 - 11 comments |
Bushfires and logging: Crusading ecologists eroding public trust in science
Environment - 24/06/2020 - 8 comments |
When “the science” defies common sense and ignores real expertise
Science & Technology - 27/05/2020 - 7 comments |
Academic over-reach lies at the heart of this summer's fire blackened landscapes
Environment - 18/03/2020 - 10 comments |
Victoria’s native forestry ban exemplifies the lost perspective of ‘progressive’ politics
Environment - 14/11/2019 - 11 comments |
Has the ABC’s Four Corners passed its use-by date?
Media - 11/07/2019 - 34 comments |
Closing a renewable timber industry for carbon credits is far from 'common sense'
Environment - 5/04/2019 - 11 comments |
Evironmental ideology: killing a Victorian rural industry by stealth
Environment - 12/03/2019 - 6 comments |
Threatened species or extinct industries?
Environment - 3/04/2017 - 9 comments |
Andrew's government to deliver unemployment double whammy to Gippsland?
Environment - 7/11/2016 - 8 comments |
New national park won't save possum
Environment - 29/04/2015 - 10 comments |
Push to close Australia's native timber industry to 'save' forest carbon based on flawed science
Environment - 17/11/2014 - 6 comments |
Science the biggest loser from Tasmanian World Heritage decision
Environment - 17/07/2014 - 11 comments |
When the 'green dream' becomes a bushfire nightmare
Environment - 2/06/2014 - 12 comments |
ABC Fact Check Unit loses its way in the Tasmanian wilderness
Environment - 3/04/2014 - 24 comments |
Victoria’s forests: to burn or not to burn?
Environment - 11/12/2013 - 7 comments |
Koalas in timber plantations: a testing issue for FSC certification
Environment - 21/11/2013 |
Outlawing eco-based secondary boycotts
Environment - 9/10/2013 - 11 comments |
Is there room for science in the Tasmanian World Heritage dispute?
Environment - 13/09/2013 - 8 comments |
Greater use of national parks is a worthy consideration
Environment - 29/07/2013 - 11 comments |
Tasmania’s World Heritage Area extension all about politics
Environment - 12/07/2013 - 6 comments |
The Greens' burning problem
Environment - 11/02/2013 - 31 comments |
Tassie's forests: deal or no deal?
Environment - 6/12/2012 - 2 comments |
Tasmania’s broken ‘forests peace talks’ expose the ugly face of eco-extortion
Environment - 7/11/2012 - 10 comments |
Myths, politics, and Leadbeater’s Possum
Environment - 29/10/2012 - 8 comments |
Gunns, forestry, and the flawed notion of 'social licence'
Environment - 9/10/2012 - 13 comments |
Tasmania's forestry debacle
Environment - 24/08/2012 - 16 comments |
Time to investigate 'Green' media spin
Media - 26/03/2012 - 12 comments |
Logging and bushfires
Environment - 25/01/2012 - 6 comments |
Tasmania’s forests: pushing a Greens’ vision onto unwilling locals
Environment - 29/08/2011 - 22 comments |
Tasmania: When 'Green' philanthropy becomes a wrecking ball
Environment - 21/07/2011 - 43 comments |
GetUp! and ENGO supporters being betrayed by deceitful campaigning
Environment - 14/07/2011 - 16 comments |
Tasmania's forests: GetUp! and the media versus a Legislative Council Inquiry
Environment - 6/07/2011 - 63 comments |
Climate Commission needs to re-think forest carbon
Environment - 27/06/2011 - 9 comments |
Markets for change: when anti-logging activism morphs into extortion
Environment - 20/05/2011 - 8 comments |
Just how green are The Greens?
Environment - 13/10/2010 - 45 comments |
Gunns capitulates to misinformation and bullying
Environment - 24/09/2010 - 27 comments |
The Greens: fuelling the forest debate
Environment - 17/08/2010 - 9 comments |
Tasmania fumes over media misconduct
Media - 7/07/2010 - 25 comments |
Peace in Tasmania’s forests?
Environment - 17/06/2010 - 63 comments |
Unnecessarily alarmist headlines about forestry poorly reflect the science
Science & Technology - 18/05/2010 - 3 comments |
Crossing the line from academia to activism
Environment - 9/04/2010 - 40 comments |
Something's in the water at the ABC
Environment - 5/03/2010 - 53 comments |
Deforestation deceit reflects badly on environmental campaigners
Environment - 18/11/2009 - 16 comments |
Fuel reduction burning - misunderstood and irrationally maligned
Environment - 16/09/2009 - 23 comments |
'Saving' Australia’s forests for carbon - valid science or 'green' activism?
Environment - 16/07/2009 - 23 comments |
The politics of bushfires
Environment - 18/03/2009 - 14 comments |
Ignoring fact, logic, and expertise
Environment - 9/12/2008 - 21 comments |
Blurring the lines between science and political activism
Environment - 30/10/2008 - 56 comments |
The rise of blogging, mainstream media, and Victoria’s river red gum forests
Media - 14/08/2008 - 11 comments |
Seeing wood, trees and forests
Environment - 21/12/2007 - 12 comments |
All-year-round commitment the key to managing forest fire
Environment - 5/02/2007 - 8 comments |
Fired-up forests have more impact than the loggers
Environment - 30/11/2006 - 11 comments |
Logging to save the planet
Environment - 27/10/2006 - 28 comments |
