Forestry Australia’s 2025 conference will focus on restoring forests and landscapes and securing Australia’s future. Source: Timberbiz
We are halfway through the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and the conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, forestry professionals, farmers, rangers and tree growing practitioners to explore how forest management and forest and landscape restoration can make a positive contribution to Australia’s future.
The conference aims to provide forest scientists, forestry professionals, tree growers and restoration practitioners with tools and best practice ideas to address critical challenges such as reducing carbon emissions, adapting to climate change and increased bushfire risk, engaging with changing social attitudes and values, empowering and involving Indigenous Australians, supporting regional development and local processing to meet national housing and forest product needs.
The role of research, innovation in supporting evidence-based practice and decision making, and the use of emerging technologies, will be important topics.
Together, attendees will discuss ideas, envision pathways, and explore a future that supports Australia’s forests to provide positive environmental, cultural, economic, and social outcomes.
The 2025 Conference Program Sub-Committee is looking to develop a diverse, authentic and engaging program built around the following sub-themes:
- Restoring forests and landscape
This sub-theme includes Traditional, cultural and Indigenous forestry; Stakeholder, social and cultural values; Post fire recovery; Forest restoration; Investment incl. carbon and biodiversity markets; Restoration for multiple values; Agriculture, private forests and trees on farms, and Biodiversity and ecosystem services.
- The role of forests in securing Australia’s future
This sub-theme includes Policy & policy impacts; Markets, business and housing; Social acceptance, Stewardship and engagement; Recreation and tourism; Fire; Biosecurity; Timber and forest products, and New partnerships and opportunities.
- Learning and innovating in the forest sector
This sub-theme includes Innovation; Lessons from the past to inform the future; Technology; Workforce, training and capacity building; Decision making and risk; Silviculture; Forest health as well as Climate change.
Abstracts are being sought for the following presentations:
- Oral presentations
- Workshops
- Whole sessions. Series of oral presentations; Panel discussions; Interviews; Quiz the Speaker; Debates; Coffee Table or ‘Campfire’ discussions; Yarning Circles; Solution Rooms
- Poster presentations
- Short student presentations (3-minute): Students are also welcome to present in other sessions.
- Other: The Committee are open to proposals for other styles of presentation to support learning and the exchange of ideas that is not mentioned in the Call for Abstracts.
The conference will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 20-23 October.
Abstract submissions close: 11:59pm AEDT, Sunday 16 March 2025.
More information at https://www.forestryconference.com.au/
