This report looks at the operational risk associated with this industry. Three types of risk are recognized in our analysis. These are: risk arising from within the industry itself (structural risk), risks arising from the expected future performance of the industry (growth risk) and risk arising from forces external to the industry (external sensitivity risk).
Firms operating in the Forestry Services industry in Australia utilise fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, seedlings, vehicles, planes and fire-fighting equipment to provide a range of services to forest growers. These firms are mainly engaged in providing services such as forest reafforestation, conservation or plantation maintenance on a fee or contract basis. This industry also includes firms mainly engaged in operating forest nurseries or in providing forest fire-fighting services.
The primary activities of firms in this industry are:
- Fire-fighting (forest)
- Forest conservation services
- Forest nursery operation or service
- Forest planting
- Pest control service (forestry, except aerial or wild animal control)
- Reforestation services
- Timber plantation and tract maintenance
- Tree pruning and thinning (forest)
- Forest science research
- Forestry economics consulting and research
| A0111 - Plant Nurseries in Australia |
This industry includes firms mainly engaged in propagating and growing ornamental plants, plants for transplanting into gardens (such as seedlings or young fruit trees), bulbs and turf.
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| A0301 - Forestry in Australia |
Firms in this industry are mainly engaged in growing standing timber in native forests, plantations, and timber tracts.
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| A0302 - Logging in Australia |
This industry's firms fell trees for logs, cut and shape trees for rough-hewn products (timbers, posts, railway sleepers, firewood), and gather forest products or distil eucalyptus oil in the forest.
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