Similar Forest Management Standards

from PNGAF MAG ISSUE # 9Q1 of 24th March 2023. Queensland's contribution to PNG's SFM

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PNG FORESTRY AND AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY 8

PNG’s tree marking and selection forest management have been adopted from selection management of wet tropical rainforest in North Queensland

The purpose of this transfer in that harvesting activities of rainforest follow selection logging guidelines to ensure retention of growing stock, imposition of minimum cutting diameters for species groups, merchantable thinning below normal diameter limits and provision for retention of seed trees. This is based on a sustainable forest management based on a 35-year cutting cycle. (North Qld selection logging based on a 40-year cutting cycle (range 38-80 years depending on species) before banned in 1989.