David Lindenmayer
Professor David Lindenmayer is a distinguished Australian scientist and academic, specialising in landscape ecology, conservation, and biodiversity. His research focuses on integrating nature conservation with agricultural production, improving biodiversity conservation in forestry and plantations, and enhancing fire management practices. With over 940 peer-reviewed papers and 49 books, David is one of the most published ecologists globally. He leads large-scale, long-term research programs in south-eastern Australia. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including the ESA Whittaker Award, multiple Eureka Prizes, and the Australian Natural History Medal.
Recent articles by David Lindenmayer
24 March 2025
Active Management – Rethinking our approach to forest stewardship
Our recent research raises an important and challenging question: Are our well-intentioned management interventions like thinning in high conservation value forests truly serving nature, or are they inadvertently accelerating the degradation of these critical ecosystems?
19 October 2024
The NSW native forest logging industry is unsustainable – a fast transition out is needed now
The NSW Government is currently seeking submissions on the future of native forest logging in the state. One option is not on the menu—yet should be. That option is the rapid and permanent exit out of native forest logging and a switch to a plantation-only timber industry in the next 2 years. This is essential because the industry, as it stands, is demonstrably unsustainable. And unsustainable in several key ways.
26 May 2024
The ugly truth of the native forest logging wars
Despite industry and political spin, our Australian native forests continue to be destroyed. The many mythologies put forward in defence of continued logging are contradicted in detail by the facts and evidence.