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Cambridge Uni puts a new spin on cricket

12 June 2024
Engineers at Cambridge University have reconstructed a historic wooden bowling machine that bowled out players from the Australian cricket team during a visit to the city more than a hundred years ago. Sources: Timberbiz, Cambridge University photos Adam Page Using patent illustration
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Insufficient forest targets in national climate action plans

12 June 2024
Despite global commitments to halt deforestation by 2030, only eight of the top 20 countries with highest rate of tropical deforestation have quantified targets on forests in their national climate action plans, also known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Source: Timberb
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New international code to boost safety in forestry

12 June 2024
International Labour Organization (ILO) is moving to boost safety and health in forestry work. Despite progress in recent decades, forests remain hazardous workplaces. New guidance from the ILO aims to better protect those women and men working in the sector. Source: Timberbiz Million
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Pan Pac helps to protect native birdlife

12 June 2024
A project helping to protect native birdlife in Mohi Bush, New Zealand is also giving local students hand-on experience in pest management and environmental monitoring. Source: Timberbiz The Rodent Control Project at Mohi Bush near Maraetotara, which recently received funding from the
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Dire consequences due to a lack of plant breeding scientists

12 June 2024
A lack of scientists specialised in plant breeding could lead to ‘dire’ food security implications in Australia, and around the world, according to new research conducted across three continents. Source: Timberbiz Plant breeding is a multidisciplinary science that underpins the global
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PFT’s new operations manager

12 June 2024
Forestry has been in Jarrod Burn’s blood since he was a child working alongside his father on a forest harvesting operation. Source: Timberbiz “I’m a fifth-generation timber industry worker,” he said. Growing up on a family farm in the Liffey Valley, which included managed
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit NZ, and Australia

12 June 2024
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced that Chinese Premier Li Qiang will visit New Zealand later this week. Source: Timberbiz “I look forward to warmly welcoming Premier Li in New Zealand. The Premier’s visit is a valuable opportunity for exchanges on areas of coopera
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HVP and CFA training back on track

12 June 2024
A recent collaborative training exercise between CFA and Hancock Victorian Plantations (HVP) has been hailed as a success following an enforced break because of the pandemic. Source: Australian Rural & Regional News The Shelley Burn Camp is unique because it occurs in one of the h
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Almost all houses in Victoria have timber frames

12 June 2024
Timber framing accounted for 91.1% of all framing in houses approved in Victoria over the year-ended April 2024. The latest analysis of the most comprehensive data available in any Australian jurisdiction shows 30.972 house approvals included timber framing, with ‘no information’ comi
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Bush Users Group petition Vic Gov’t to stop national parks

12 June 2024
  About 400 Victorians a day have been signing a petition calling on the Victorian Government to halt converting another 486,412ha of state forests into national parks, locking out hunters, firewood collectors, prospectors, horse and trail-bike riders, according to The Weekly Tim
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