Robyn Williams: We shall now leap north and risk making a few people very cross. Whenever you mention camphor laurels people get heated, but they may, just may, be good for forests. Wendy Neilan did ...

Camphor laurel has become the major tree weed of the Australian rainforest, growing deep in the most inaccessible vine thickets, where conservation workers track it down by following the smell.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A million camphor laurel trees have spread throughout the Bellinger valley in northern New South Wales.

Camphor is a flammable, waxy, transparent or white solid which has a brawny aromatic odor. The origin of camphor comes from a large evergreen tree known as camphor laurel which is found in Asia. It is ...

Lorraine Vass from Friends of the Koala said she has seen a dramatic increase in large-scale camphor harvesting in the past three months and believes much of it is being used to fuel the co-generation ...

The concept plan, including a boardwalk along the Clarence River and the trees' removal, was approved in Clarence Valley Council this week in what was a significant step in a decades-long process.