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AFPA submission to Senate Economics Legislation Committee

22 January 2024
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has provided feedback on the Government amendments to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Multinationals Pay Their Fair Share – Integrity and Transparency) Bill 2023 (Bill). AFPA has said that plantation forestry was never the intended
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Yew trap the most pollution

19 January 2024
Pollution-trapping yew trees could help clean up Britain’s air, a new study has found. According to scientists from Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research, the yew’s pointy leaves excelled at trapping toxic particles and releasing them in the rain. Source: Cou
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PEFC survey plants the seeds for growth

19 January 2024
In 2022, PEFC embarked on a mission to understand perspectives on sustainability and certification through a market survey, with the promise to plant one tree for each completed questionnaire. In partnership with French communities and primary schools, PEFC turned the answers into see
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Emission-free pulping research

19 January 2024
The forest industry, technology companies, research organizations, and universities have joined forces to revolutionize the traditional pulping processes under the joint leadership of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Source: Timberbiz Th
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MyPestGuide App

19 January 2024
A new mobile app, MyPestGuide Trees, is available to industry, government, and citizen scientists, empowering all to easily identify and report invasive pests and diseases that could threaten our native, plantation and urban forests. Source: Timberbiz While many potentially damaging p
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Shot hole borer beetle alert for WA

19 January 2024
Destructive beetle Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) was first detected in August 2021 in WA and has now been confirmed in more than 80 suburbs across the metropolitan area in backyards, street verges, public open spaces, parks and reserves. Source: Timberbiz A Quarantine Area is in
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Forestry industry to establish Pan sector body

19 January 2024
The NZ Forest & Wood Sector Forum (NZFWSF) will improve communication throughout the forestry supply chain to pursue and ensure continued growth and to manage issues with the interest of the whole sector in mind. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Industry Contractors Association CEO and
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$10M for 11 WA businesses in native forest transition plan

19 January 2024
Eleven South West businesses will share in almost $10 million in funding as part of the WA Government’s Native Forest Transition Plan to continue to drive economic diversification and jobs in the region. Source: Timberbiz The New Industry Development Grants (NIDG) aim to attract
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Now South East forest group takes Forestry Corp to court to stop logging Pic of greater glider

19 January 2024
A conservation group has gone to court in a bid to halt logging in more NSW forests where vulnerable and endangered species live. Source: Timberbiz The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has repeatedly extended stop-work orders in the Tallaganda and Flat Rock state forests, allegi
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Opinion: Joel Fitzgibbon – Schneiders’ mischievous hardwood claims

19 January 2024
In the wake of the Federal Court’s recent decision on native forestry, Lyndon Schneiders (executive director of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation) tells us the Albanese government has recognised the need for a new native forestry approach. So too has the forestry indu
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