In short:
A Victorian sawmill harvested wood from endangered mountain ash forests and sold it to Domino's as woodchips to smoke meat for pizzas.
The pizzas were marketed with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. However, an investigation has now found seven breaches of FSC standards.
The sawmill responsible says its timber harvesting is in full compliance with all relevant environmental regulations and forestry legislation.
When Domino's advertised its "smokehouse" pizzas in 2023, it trumpeted that the meat was smoked over timber logged from "Aussie Mountain ash".
It also advertised that the timber was certified as sustainable.
But what the advertising didn't promote was that mountain ash forests are critically endangered, with logging listed as one of the key processes threatening them.
And now the ABC can reveal the certification that assured consumers that logging was sustainable was breached in seven different ways, according to the organisation that accredits certifiers.
Those breaches included potentially stealing the trees from the neighbouring state forest, ignoring protections for waterways and logging potential endangered species habitat.
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