澳大利亚环保阵营因新南威尔士州政府提议的改进型原生森林管理方法（INFM）而陷入分裂[1]。该方案允许州政府从公有原生森林中提取碳信用额收入，用于森林恢复并最终结束采伐[1]。肯·亨利表示，若该方案持续存在，15年内可产生足够收入支持新南威尔士州100年的森林恢复[1]。相比之下，政府当前资金仅为所需的0.6%[1]。
支持者包括科学家和主流环保组织，他们认为这是拯救剩余原生森林的最佳机会[1]。然而，绿党领导人鲍勃·布朗、工会、采伐业以及一国党坚决反对[1]。布朗表示："我的异议不在于林德迈耶或支持该方法的环保人士，而在于米尼斯和阿尔巴尼斯，我认为他们做的是令人厌恶的"[1]。绿党参议员克里斯汀·米尔恩认为应该立即停止碳排放，而非"寻找允许污染继续的新方式"[1]。反对者担忧这会将森林从采伐者转向污染企业，并违背选举承诺[1]。
月底国民党将在联邦议会提出动议以废止该方法[1]，联邦绿党可能掌握决定性投票权[1]。
Australia's conservation sector has split sharply over a proposed forest management approach championed by New South Wales' Labor government. The Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method, approved by the Albanese federal government, would allow the state to generate carbon credits from public native forests, with revenues directed toward forest restoration and the eventual cessation of logging.[1]
The scheme has divided environmental advocates into opposing camps. Supporters, including scientists and mainstream conservation organizations, view it as the last viable opportunity to save Australia's remaining native forests.[1] According to Ken Henry, the approach could generate sufficient revenue within 15 years to fund 100 years of forest restoration in New South Wales, addressing a critical funding shortfall—current government allocations meet only 0.6 percent of restoration needs, according to analysis by the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.[1] However, opponents—spanning the timber industry, unions, the National Party, and prominent Greens leader Bob Brown—argue the plan effectively transfers forests from loggers to polluting corporations rather than protecting them outright.[1]
Bob Brown articulated his objection: "My objection is not with Lindenmayer or the environmentalists supporting this, but with Meins and Albanese, and I believe what they are doing is abhorrent."[1] Christine Milne, representing another faction of opposition, contended that immediate carbon emissions reductions should take priority over "finding new ways to allow pollution to continue."[1] The federal Greens hold decisive voting power in Parliament, where the National Party plans to introduce a motion to scrap the method before month's end.[1]