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Solar powered fire sensor

19 July 2023
Dryad Networks (Dryad), an environmental IoT startup based in Berlin, has launched its solar-powered sensor network Silvanet to the market, delivering ultra-early wildfire detection and forest monitoring across the globe. Source: Timberbiz The new technology effectively mitigates wild
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Canada’s most destructive wildfire season ever

19 July 2023
Canada is experiencing its most destructive wildfire season on record, as hundreds of blazes burning from coast to coast continue to send tremendous plumes of smoke into the atmosphere and over the US.  Source: CBS news, photo NASA A map updated daily by the Canadian Interagency Fores
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China’s impact on Australian timber exports

19 July 2023
Global wood markets will see another changeup in the coming months as Australian exporters can again ship logs to China following a 2.5-year ban. But exports are not expected to reach historic levels seen a few years ago. Sources: Resource Wise, Timberbiz At the end of 2020, China ban
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Applications for funding of RD&E open at FWPA

19 July 2023
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA) invites applications for funding of RD&E that will advance research of benefit to Australia’s commercial forest growing sector. Proposals should align with FWPA’s Strategic Plan 2023-2028 and Forestry RD&E Investment Plans. Source: T
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oWoW president to speak at timber offsite conference

19 July 2023
The Timber Offsite Construction Conference and Exhibition now in its 24th year is open for registration by local and global delegates. Scheduled for September 11-12 at Crown Promenade Melbourne, the event is now run by the Timber Development Association, with CEO Andrew Dunn confirmin
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Court decision backs foresters says Forest Owners Association

19 July 2023
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association says the successful judicial review of the workings of the Emissions Trading Scheme shows government attitudes and actions are jeopardising New Zealand reaching its greenhouse gas reduction goals. Source: Timberbiz The High Court in Wellington h
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AFPA welcomes development of sectoral decarbonisation plans

19 July 2023
Getting more timber trees in the ground will be a key priority for Australia’s Net Zero 2050 Plan as a practical solution that supports sovereign capability, jobs in regional areas and materials to build future houses, according to Australian Forest Products Association CEO Joel
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Government mismanagement triggers Victorian timber business downturn

19 July 2023
The state government decision to close the native forest timber industry culminates eight years of mismanagement that turned VicForests from a profitable business into a loss maker, an analysis by a Traralgon consultant has found. Source: Philip Hopkins, Latrobe Valley Express As a re
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VicForests staff forced to live under constant unemployment threat

19 July 2023
VicForests staff and their guests, with the threat of unemployment hanging over their heads, gathered together with their trade union backers last week at a barbecue in Traralgon’s Newman Park. Source: Philip Hopkins, Latrobe Valley Express Julian Kennelly, a spokesman for the Communi
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National environment standards could end all native forestry in Australia

19 July 2023
Australia’s forest industry fears the Albanese government’s new national environment standards could end native forest logging nationally. Source: The Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is drafting the new standards as part of a revamp of environmental law and has vowed t
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