News & Events

NEWS AND EVENTS

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Melbourne University Students Gain Firsthand Forest Knowledge

08 October 2015

VicForests doesn’t only provide forest visits for thousands of Victorian school students.  University students also visit VicForests to see the range of forests and to better understand the operations. Students from the University of Melbourne recently visited, as part of the ‘Forests in a...

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WA Students Experience Forestry Careers

08 October 2015

Forest Products Commission (FPC) WA hosted to a Careers in Agriculture and Forestry program for sixty Year 9 students along with a number of staff, from high schools surrounding and feeding into Manjimup Senior High (included Boyup Brook, Northcliffe, Pemberton, Nannup and Manjimup itself) in the...

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Celebrate National Tree Day 2015

17 July 2015

This year National Tree Day celebrates its 20th birthday with National Schools Tree Day on Friday the 24th of July 2015 and with the community at large on the 26th of July. Incorporating a 'celebrating trees' activity with your class is a great way of connecting your students to their natural...

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ForestLearning Competition Winner

16 May 2015

To celebrate the launch of the new ForestLearning.edu.au site, ForestLearning ran a competition for teachers to register their interest in receiving new forestry resources while standing a chance to win a new iPad. And the lucky winner was Nathan, a technology teacher from Kapunda High School. Nathan...

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More than 8,000 NSW students engaged in forest education in 2014

16 May 2015

Curriculum-linked school excursions, school holiday activities, university field trips and educational events such as science expos reached more than 8,000 students in NSW during the 2014 financial year. Figures recently published in Forestry Corporation of NSW's annual sustainability supplement show...

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