Hardware chain Bunnings has put VicForests on notice that it must reduce its impact on Victoria’s native forests or risk losing its custom, after the state-owned forestry company failed in its bid to achieve green certification.  VicForests …is under pressure from green groups who want to see an end to large-scale logging in old-growth forests. It is also under rising pressure from several smaller timber mills across the state which say they have been starved of high-grade hardwood since the Andrews government bought out the state’s biggest native timber mill, in Heyfield, last year for $62 million. But a move by VicForests to demonstrate its green credentials and satisfy Bunnings, perhaps its highest-profile customer, has backfired. VicForests announced late last year that it was seeking Forest Stewardship Council certification… But auditors for the council have knocked back VicForests’ bid to obtain “controlled wood certification”, the lowest level of green endorsement on offer.