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A Wik Forestry Industry on Cape York Peninsula: Visions and Realities

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  • Venn, Tyron

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The large, unutilised native forest timber resource on traditional Wik land on Cape York Peninsula, Australia, could be managed for timber production to contribute to Wik socio-economic objectives. Wik elders have a set of forestry objectives and envisage that these will be best achieved by a timber industry selling unprocessed logs and woodchips. On the other hand, Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation, an indigenous community development organisation, anticipate that an industry utilising high-technology equipment and producing dried and dressed finished products including strip-flooring will best satisfy Wik forestry objectives. The Wilderness Society envisages small-scale, community development activities such as portable sawmilling and niche market furniture manufacture as being appropriate types of forestry activities on Wik land. Goal programming analysis of forest use opportunities indicates that Wik forestry objectives are unlikely to be best satisfied by adopting the timber utilisation opportunities espoused by any one of the stakeholders.

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  • Venn, Tyron, 2004. "A Wik Forestry Industry on Cape York Peninsula: Visions and Realities," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 149843, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uqsers:149843
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.149843
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    1. Venn, Tyron J. & Quiggin, John, 2007. "Accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(2-3), pages 334-344, March.
    2. Venn, Tyron J., 2023. "Reconciling timber harvesting, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in Queensland, Australia," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    3. Preece, Luke D. & van Oosterzee, Penny & Dungey, Kym & Standley, Peta-Marie & Preece, Noel D., 2016. "Ecosystem service valuation reinforces world class value of Cape York Peninsula's ecosystems but environment and indigenous people lose out," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 154-164.
    4. Venn, Tyron J., 2007. "Economic implications of inalienable and communal native title: The case of Wik forestry in Australia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(1), pages 131-142, October.

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