Drones to plant 15 billion trees
29 June 2017
An Australian engineer is hoping to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe. Source: ABC News Deforestation and forest degradation make up 17% of the world’s carbon emissions — more than the entire world’s transportation sect
Continue Reading →Quintis discounting to stave off collapse
29 June 2017
Troubled Quintis is heavily discounting its stocks of sandalwood oil and timber as the company tries to stave off collapse. Source: Australian Financial Review The Perth-based sandalwood grower will fail unless it can successfully negotiate a recapitalisation before it runs out of cas
Continue Reading →SA gov’t lacks initiative for forestry
29 June 2017
The absence of any specific funding initiatives for the forest products industry in this year’s South Australian Budget was a missed opportunity for the Government, according to the Australian Forest Products Association State Manager, Mr John Stokes. Source: Timberbiz Mr Stokes said
Continue Reading →Private Forestry Forum Tasmania
29 June 2017
The Hon Guy Barnett, Minister for Resources, Minister for Building and Construction will be the keynote speaker at a private forestry forum for landowners, foresters, processors and land-use managers in Tasmania. Source: Timberbiz The event will be held on Tuesday 11 July 2017 at the
Continue Reading →US wants quick deal with Canada, but not likely
22 June 2017
Canada’s envoy to Washington says President Donald Trump’s administration is interested in a quick deal to end a softwood lumber dispute although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government sees no imminent agreement. Source: Bloomberg Ambassador David MacNaughton said US Commerce Secr
Continue Reading →Pumping the forest with CO2
22 June 2017
Researchers at a British University have embarked on a decade-long experiment that will pump a forest full of carbon dioxide to measure how it copes with rising levels of the gas – a key driver of climate change. Source: Reuters The Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) expe
Continue Reading →WorkSafe NZ tells farmer to get professionals to harvest wood
22 June 2017
WorkSafe New Zealand says many of the woodlots on farmland were planted on steep ground which made harvesting these trees highly dangerous. Source: Stuff NZ Woodlots can be dangerous territory for farmers who are better to bring in the professionals when they want them harvested safel
Continue Reading →Co-firing renewable wood waste
22 June 2017
Australia is ideally placed to significantly reduce emissions from our coal-fired power stations by co-firing them with renewable wood waste. Source: Timberbiz Reports in Fairfax newspapers that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is advocating for the potential of co-firing r
Continue Reading →NZ structural log prices hit the highs
22 June 2017
New Zealand structural log prices have hit their highest level in more than two decades as local mills compete with the export market to secure supply to meet demand from the domestic market. Source: NBR The price for structural S1 logs lifted to NZ$124 a tonne this month from NZ $123
Continue Reading →J-Frame questioned on labelling of LVL
22 June 2017
A popular brand of timber product used to build Kiwi homes doesn’t meet the strict rules put in place in response to the leaky homes crisis. Source: TVNZ That’s prompted urgent action from government officials. The Commerce Commission has ruled J-Frame is not everything it
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