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Call for all sides of politics to focus on planting for the future

21 March 2022
International Day of Forests Australia’s forest industries are marking today’s International Day of Forests to call on all sides of politics to focus on getting more production trees planted nationally, while guaranteeing a secure future for our sustainable native forest industries, t
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Gippsland arts centre showcase of timber industry

18 March 2022
The The $42 million Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, a landmark project featuring engineered native hardwood timber, was formally opened in early March. The centre is dominated by 10 engineered “trees” made from Victorian Ash timber, each 8.5 metres high and weighing more than three
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Chester slams Vic Government over native forest closure plans

18 March 2022
Nationals Federal MP Darren Chester has attacked as “farcical” and an “insult” the Andrews Government’s praise for the use of local Vic Ash timber in the Latrobe Valley Performing Arts Centre while still backing the destruction of Gippsland’s native forest industry. Mr Chester, the Me
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European Forest Institute renames FLEGT and REDD

18 March 2022
The European Forest Institute (EFI) has renamed its FLEGT and REDD Unit, which is now called the International Partnerships Facility. The new name brings to light what has always been at the core of the Facility’s work: facilitating partnerships between producing and consuming countri
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Dogs with a Nose4Wood

18 March 2022
Finland is the first country in the world to train dogs to sniff out the Heterobasidion fungus in spruce and rust fungus in pine. The Nose4Wood project, run jointly by the Lapland University of Applied Sciences and Natural Resources Institute Finland, strives to find out whether dogs
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UN International Day of Forests

18 March 2022
  The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will mark International Day of Forests 2022 on 21 March with an online event that focuses on how leaders in the fashion textile and packaging sectors are shaping sustainable relationships between forests and circular pro
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Drop-in sessions for forest contractors on forestry plans

18 March 2022
Last week the Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) coordinated drop-in sessions for members, forest contracting businesses and their crews to get much needed information on the latest updates to the Victorian Forestry Plan and the increased role of the regulator in relatio
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Pulp and paper celebrate Global Recycling Day today

18 March 2022
Today, Global Recycling Day, is an opportunity to recognise the great work Australia’s sustainable pulp and paper industries do recycling renewable paper and packaging products over and over again, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA), Vi
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FWPA central database for private forestry information

18 March 2022
Forest & Wood Products Australia is developing a single, centralised database for private forestry information through a national project to collect and collate information about commercial farm plantations, private native forests and Indigenous managed forests around Australia. S
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Pyrotron to answer burning questions

18 March 2022
In the face of more extreme events, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has unveiled its new world-class bushfire research facility to better understand how bushfires behave, what conditions make them worse, and the best ways to respond. Source:  Timberbiz Constructed at a cos
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