Posted 10/10/2025

Huge volumes of timber imported into Australia could be (unknowingly) illegal or ‘conflict’ timber, with a new report published by Australia’s Department of Agriculture under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that 50% of all sampled products could not accurately verify the provenance of the wood.

The report, produced by Source Certain—the body which last month revealed that up to 7.5% of all timber used in UK house building could be traced to Russian oligarch-controlled forests—revealed that whilst all known examples of Australian-grown timber were correctly labelled, 63% of import samples carrying private certifications were incorrectly labelled.

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