The axing of VicForests: how did it come to this?
* November 2019 - The Victorian government announces it will end native logging in the state by 2030
* January 2020 - Warburton Environment Inc launches a Supreme Court action against VicForests for failing to comply with regulations, alleging the company illegally harvested the endangered tree geebung
* November 2021 - Private investigator Alan Davey reveals to the ABC he was hired by VicForests to follow and uncover "dirt" on environmentalist Sarah Rees
* May 2022 - Supreme Court hearings begin in Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest's case against VicForests for failing to adequately survey for two endangered possum species
* August 2022 - Victorian parliament passes a bill to create harsher penalties for protesters on logging sites and give authorised officers additional powers to search containers, bags and vehicles for prohibited items
* October 2022 - The Victorian Auditor-General's Office releases a report finding gaps in VicForests' data prevented the Office of the Conservation Regulator from assessing non-compliance in native forest harvesting
* October 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests illegally logged in areas home to endangered tree geebungs and grants injunctions preventing logging in the central highlands
* November 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests failed to meet its legal obligations to adequately survey for greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders while harvesting in East Gippsland in eastern Victoria and grants injunctions until VicForests improves its survey practices
* December 2022 - VicForests posts a loss of $52.4 million in the 2021/22 financial year as it navigated legal challenges, stand-down payments and compensation for failing to supply customers
* May 2023 - The Victorian government announces native logging in the state will end on January 1, 2024, six years earlier than expected along with a $200 million transition package
* August 2023 - The Victorian Information Commissioner finds VicForests hired a private investigator using taxpayer money to illegally spy on several anti-logging campaigners
* November 2023 - VicForests' annual report shows the business recorded a net loss of $60.1 million over the 2022/23 financial year and blames the deficit on court action
* January 2024 - Native forest logging officially ends in Victoria
* March 2024 - The Supreme Court hears VicForests will cease to exist from June 30
