Our Climate

Forests play a major role in reducing climate change. Forests are giant carbon pumps which draw in carbon from the air and pump it into the soil, trunks and branches over hundreds of years.

Mountain Ash Forests in Victoria are a huge carbon store. Logging releases 40-60% of this carbon in the form of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere- contributing to climate change! It takes 152 years for the new forests to grow and recapture only 90% of the carbon emitted.

Previously these forests have not been valued adequately for their role in carbon storage, partly because carbon stocks have been underestimated by national and international studies.