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Notre Dame on the mend with medieval tools

14 July 2023
In a spectacular operation to rebuild the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral, massive oak trusses were hoisted from a barge on to the Paris monument on Tuesday. Source: The National Huge crowds gathered along a bridge over the Seine River and on its banks to watch trusses weighing 7 to
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FSC appoints its first global creative agency

14 July 2023
WE Communications (WE), a global integrated communications consultancy, announced its appointment by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), as its global creative agency. This marks the first time that the organization has consolidated its international creative duties under one agency
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Russia’s Segezha to log out of logging moratorium of protected forests

14 July 2023
Between June and November 2022, Russia’s largest timber company, Segezha Group, opted out of logging moratorium in ecologically valuable forests across Russia: in Karelia, Komi, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and Arkhangelsk. According to World Wildlife Fund data, the total forested area that
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Kenneth Epp retires from Visy Pulp and Paper after 25 years

14 July 2023
After 25 years with Visy Pulp and Paper, Kenneth Epp, who was with the Tumut mill from its establishment in 2001, has retired. Source: Timberbiz Chair of the Softwoods Working Group and Murray Region Forestry Hub, Peter Crowe OAM, said Mr Epp played a major role in the development of
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Three new directors join Scion board

14 July 2023
New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute Scion welcomes the appointment of three new directors to its Board. Minister of Research, Science and Innovation Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall has appointed Nicole Anderson, Phil Taylor and Kiriwaitingi Rei-Russell to the Board for a three-year ter
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Supreme Court green tape could tie up fuel reduction burns in Victoria

14 July 2023
A legal case brought by the Save our Strathbogie Forests group against the Victorian government threatens to set a precedent that could tie up fuel reduction burns across Australia in bureaucratic and legislative green tape. Source: Weekly Times SOSF president Bertram Lobert has teame
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Commonwealth States forestry ministers meeting outcomes

14 July 2023
Australia’s forest products sector has welcomed the agreed priorities from this week’s Commonwealth-States forestry ministers meeting. Ministers agreed to focus on increasing resource security, expanding forestry’s contribution to climate change mitigation and expanding the production
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Writing a climate report to close native forestry without forestry scientists

14 July 2023
The Andrews government has been accused of using a landmark Victorian climate report, which was written without any input from forestry researchers or the forest industry, to prematurely close the native forestry industry. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz These forestry groups res
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Opinion: Mick Harrington – the fight is far from finished

14 July 2023
It’s been a heck of a time to come into the role as executive officer of Forest and Wood Communities Australia (FWCA) but I am thoroughly enjoying continuing the fight for timber communities Australia wide and I thank both Justin Law (former managing director) and Felicia Stevenson (f
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Friday analysis: The highs and lows of working in forestry

14 July 2023
It has been a week of highs, and lows. On the upside the largely ineffective and controversial “water rule” has been scrapped. The rule prevented plantation and farm forestry projects from access to the carbon market, held up much-needed investment in new plantations, and discouraged
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