Tell Bunnings: stop sourcing timber from special native forests

Stocked on shelves of your local Bunnings are timber products made from special Australian native forests.

These forests in NSW and Lutruwita / Tasmania are critical habitat for species like greater gliders, the swift parrot and quolls.

Wood industry certifications are supposed to help guide consumers to ethical wood products, but Bunnings uses a dodgy certification scheme called Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). PEFC certifies the logging of endangered species habitat and ancient forests, and then claims it’s sustainable.

How do we know it’s dodgy?

Despite having a slew of illegal logging convictions—including logging critically ...

Stocked on shelves of your local Bunnings are timber products made from special Australian native forests.

These forests in NSW and Lutruwita / Tasmania are critical habitat for species like greater gliders, the swift parrot and quolls.

Wood industry certifications are supposed to help guide consumers to ethical wood products, but Bunnings uses a dodgy certification scheme called Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). PEFC certifies the logging of endangered species habitat and ancient forests, and then claims it’s sustainable.

How do we know it’s dodgy?

Despite having a slew of illegal logging convictions—including logging critically endangered greater glider habitat—PEFC provides certification to NSW’s state-owned logging agency, Forestry Corporation.

It also certifies Forestry Tasmania operations. Forestry Tasmania has been fined for breaching logging laws multiple times by the regulator. Citizen scientists have also reported many alleged breaches of logging plans in forests managed by Forestry Tasmania.

But together, we’ve pushed Bunnings to change before. Through public pressure, it stopped selling timber sourced from the Victorian state-owned logging agency after it was found to be logging illegally.

Will you email Bunnings Managing Director Michael Schneider today to tell him that Bunnings needs to stop sourcing products from other special Australian native forests, and instead help protect them?

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Dear Mr Schneider,

I am writing to you today as I am very concerned about Bunnings sourcing timber from Australian native forests.

Bunnings is selling timber products with PEFC certification. This is a flawed scheme with a consistent track record of certifying products coming from highly destructive logging operations, including where there is logging of high conservation value forests, old growth forests and illegal logging.

PEFC certifies Forestry Corporation of NSW and Forestry Tasmania (trading as Sustainable Timber Tasmania), two logging agencies that have a documented history of environmental mismanagement. Forestry Corporation of NSW has a long track record of illegal logging convictions and Forestry Tasmania has been fined for breaching logging laws multiple times by the regulator.

Bunnings claims to source responsibly and has a “zero-tolerance approach to illegally logged timber”; however, your company has not provided evidence to prove that illegally logged timber has not entered your supply chain.

Native forests are worth more standing. The precious forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania and NSW provide critical habitat for endangered species like the swift parrot, koala, quolls, and greater gliders. Logging these forests is driving these species closer to extinction, and causing serious environmental impacts like reduced water quality and increased bushfire risk.

Australian consumers don’t want to be misled on the sustainability of the products they’re buying, especially from a highly trusted company like Bunnings. I urge Bunnings to stop sourcing wood from high conservation value forests across Australia, stop relying on the PEFC certification, and instead ensure your timber products are certified to the Australian FSC Full Forest Management standard.

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