Sustainable Timber Tasmania is a Tasmanian Government Business Enterprise responsible under State legislation for:
- Sustainably managing approximately 800,000 hectares of public production forest (Permanent Timber Production Zone land)
- Undertaking forest operations for the production and sale of forest products from these forests (including making available at least 137,000 cubic metres of high quality eucalypt sawlogs and veneer logs per annum).
Sustainable Timber Tasmania purpose is to be a customer-focused and financially viable forest products and services provider, sustainably managing Permanent Timber Production Zone land for multiple-use as a community asset.
Sustainable Timber Tasmania aims to:
- Achieve and maintain financial sustainability
- Efficiently and effectively make available agreed wood volumes and other services
- Professionally manage public production forests to maintain wood resources and other environmental, cultural and economic values
- Achieve zero harm to our people and contractors.
Our forest management is currently certified under the Australian Forestry Standard which is recognised, under the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, as being an independent assurance of legal and sustainable timber supply. We are also in the process of seeking certification for our operations under Forest Stewardship Council® standards.