Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced new support for the country’s timber industry while emphasising the Coalition’s promise to plant one billion trees by 2030 is still achievable.
During his visit to a sawmill in northern Tasmania on April 14, the prime minister said the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires had impeded the progress and unveiled a support package worth nearly $220 million (US$164 million) for the forestry sector to achieve the goal.
“We didn’t set (the targets) because we thought they were easy. We set them because we believed they were important,” he told reporters in Launceston.
“We have to keep working to that despite the setbacks that we have had.”
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