Right to Information documents have shown the biodiversity values, extent of old growth, and potential logging methods for 39,000 hectares of native Tasmanian forest that could soon be made available for logging. The Tasmanian Liberals promised to transfer the forests from what it calls a “wood bank” — or Future Potential Production Forest — into a classification that would allow them to be logged at short notice. The exact location of the forests has remained secret despite questioning by the media and in parliament. But details have now been publicly released following a Right to Information request by BirdLife Australia, against the wishes of the government. They show the government asked the state’s public forestry company, which trades as Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT), in late 2021 if it wanted to access extra native forests.