A NSW government panel is considering ending native forest logging within four years, as part of a review of forestry's future. The proposal faces opposition from the timber industry but is supported by conservationists concerned about the environmental impact, particularly on endangered species like koalas and swift parrots. The panel is consulting on various options, including reducing harvesting or transitioning to plantation timber.

There are fresh claims that a NSW government agency is illegally logging the habitats of threatened species.

Penalties for logging in a bushfire-hit forest may not be the last after a court accepted there was a pattern of offending in a state-owned corporation that says it is learning from its mistakes.

Land and Environment Court fines state agency $360,000 for logging eucalyptus trees after black summer bushfires

Essential Energy will replace 11,200 timber poles a year with composite poles made of fibreglass and resin.