2025 Forestry Australia Conference

The 2025 Forestry Australia Conference, the premier Australian meeting for forest scientists, foresters and forest growers will be held from Monday 20 to Thursday 23 October 2025, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia.

The 2025 Forestry Australia Conference will focus on Restoring forests and landscapes and securing Australia’s future. We are halfway through the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and the conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, forestry professionals, farmers, rangers and tree growing practitioners to explore how forest management and forest and landscape restoration can make a positive contribution to Australia’s future.

The conference aims to provide forest scientists, forestry professionals, tree growers and restoration practitioners with tools and best practice ideas to address critical challenges such as reducing carbon emissions, adapting to climate change and increased bushfire risk, engaging with changing social attitudes and values, empowering and involving Indigenous Australians, supporting regional development and local processing to meet national housing and forest product needs. The role of research, innovation in supporting evidence-based practice and decision making, and the use of emerging technologies, will be important topics.

Together, attendees will discuss ideas, envision pathways, and explore a future that supports Australia’s forests to provide positive environmental, cultural, economic, and social outcomes.