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Mount Gambier City Council defers decision to join SAFPA

22 May 2023
Mount Gambier City Council has deferred a decision to consider becoming a member of the South Australian Forest Products Association which would incur a yearly membership fee of $3000.  Source: Timberbiz, SE Voice The significance of the forestry industry in Mount Gambier prompted cou
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University of Montana project to advance precision forestry

19 May 2023
The University of Montana (UM) in the US was selected to lead one of the first-ever Regional Innovation Engine awards from the National Science Foundation. UM’s project is designed to advance precision forestry and rangeland technologies. Source: Timberbiz As with the 43 other awardee
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Canada calls on overseas help to combat wildfires

19 May 2023
Canada has called for help to combat wildfires burning out of control and spreading across vast swathes of the western half of the country. Source: VOA and Timberbiz The fires that have devastated the oil-producing Alberta province have in recent days spread to neighbouring British Co
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Ukraine ousts Russian and Belarus timber from world market

19 May 2023
Russia and Belarus timber suppliers are being pushed out of world markets. Ukraine has a chance to take their place, which will create an industry with a turnover of up to US$10 billion and tens of thousands of jobs. Source: Ukrinform This was emphasized by the Deputy Head of the Ukra
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OFO photo competition winners

19 May 2023
OneFortyOne’s 2023 Forest Photo Competition winners have been selected. More than 150 photos were received from students across the Limestone Coast and South Western Victoria regions, making choosing just two winners a challenge. Source: Timberbiz The judging panel (including a team f
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VicForests using drones to comply with new Supreme Court orders

19 May 2023
VicForests has started using drones at night to detect endangered fauna to comply with new orders from the Victorian Supreme Court that have temporarily led to the closure of the native forest industry. Source: Philip Hopkins, LaTrobe Valley Express The state’s native harvest operator
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Bunnings watching how WA Govt harvests jarrah for Alcoa

19 May 2023
Bunnings is keeping an eye on how timber harvested by the West Australian government to allow Alcoa to mine has been labelled sustainable despite no rehabilitation of the jarrah forests being completed in 60 years of bauxite mining. Source: WA Today In 2020, UK company BSI audited the
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Carlie Porteous to move to Murray Region Forestry Hub

19 May 2023
The appointment of current Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) general manager Carlie Porteous as manager of the Murray Region Forestry Hub has been welcomed by the hub’s chair Peter Crowe. Source: Timberbiz Mr Crowe said Ms Porteous brought more than 12 years’ expe
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China reopens its doors to Australian timber

19 May 2023
China will resume the importation of Australian timber, bringing to an end a ban of nearly three years. Source: Timberbiz “The Chinese customs has formally notified the Australian minister of agriculture that starting from today China will resume import of Australian timbers,” Ambassa
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Opinion: Tim Payne – Conservationists are killing the Swift parrot

19 May 2023
Much of the valuable closed canopy forests of the southern and eastern areas of Tasmania, continuously harvested virtually from European first settlement, have this century been barred to industry because they are the seasonal habitat of the critically endangered swift parrot. This ac
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