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Threatened ecological communities (TECs) are rare groups of plants, animals and other organisms interacting in a unique habitat. We completed a 3-year TEC mapping project to improve the recognition, management and regulation of TECs in native forestry areas in NSW.

The Private Native Forestry (PNF) Codes of Practice (the PNF Codes) establish a regulatory framework for the sustainable management of forests, guiding private native forestry operations in NSW.

Old growth forest and rainforest are rare ecosystems and provide important habitat for many threatened species. Logging is not permitted in old growth forest and rainforest on both private and public land in NSW.

We have developed guidelines and videos to provide further information to operators and landholders conducting native forestry operations and to support compliance with the PNF Code of Practice.

The video playlist below provides an overview of the legal framework underpinning PNF in NSW, introducing the PNF Code of Practice which sets environmental and operational standards for timber harvesting on private land.

Native forestry on public land is mostly in state forests, and includes timber harvesting and thinning, constructing access roads, burning, grazing, and other activities. The Forestry Corporation of NSW manages these operations, and we regulate them.

Regional Forest Agreements are bilateral agreements between the Australian Government and four state governments.

The NSW and Australian governments are required to review the RFAs every 5 years to assess progress regarding ecologically sustainable forest management.

The Coastal IFOA includes limits on the harvesting practices used by Forestry Corporation NSW to ensure harvesting operations are distributed across the landscape and over time, to support a mosaic of forest age classes and maintain forest structure in the operational area or local landscape area.

This page explains the measurement of diameter at stump height over bark (DSHOB) as defined in the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA).