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Sumitomo Forestry to build housing estate

10 September 2015
Japanese industrial conglomerate Sumitomo has expanded its land holdings in Melbourne’s north, buying out Evolve Development’s Annadale housing estate in Merrifield. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Sumitomo Forestry Australia, which took a 50% stake in local home builder
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Illegal logging victims are small business

10 September 2015
The Renewable Energy Target is a dead weight on industry and households thanks to its escalation of electricity prices. Not so well known is the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act, which is set to increase the price of imported timber and paper products according to David Leyonhjelm. Sou
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Swift stop to save parrot

10 September 2015
Forestry Tasmania is being urged to stop logging in 3% of its native forest logging area because it is habitat for the endangered swift parrot. Source: ABC News Analysis by the Wilderness Society used publicly available information to plot the location of important habitat in state fo
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No logging in Heritage area without UNESCO ok

10 September 2015
Tasmania has given top-level assurances to the Abbott government that it won’t log inside its Wilderness World Heritage Area without agreement from UNESCO. Source: The Australian The state government has vowed to pursue harvesting of certain species of trees inside parts of the 1.58 m
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Forestry training facility for Tas

10 September 2015
A new forestry training facility in northern Tasmania is aimed at upskilling workers as the industry aims to increase production in coming years. Source: ABC News The facility, under construction at Invermay, is set to open in Launceston in November and has been designed by the indust
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Forestry Tasmania donates trees

10 September 2015
Schools across Tasmania have again benefited from trees donated by Forestry Tasmania (FT), grown by its nursery for National Tree Day. Source: Timberbiz, Forestry Tasmania National Tree Day is supported throughout Australia by Planet Ark. The Assistant Manager of FT Perth nursery, Car
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Richard Stanton Memorial Awards

10 September 2015
Australia’s forestry industry will pay tribute to a man who devoted his life to sustainable forest management in Australia and internationally. Source: Timberbiz The inaugural Richard Stanton Memorial Award for Excellence will be presented at a dinner organised by Australian Forestry
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Ag forestry machinery industry report

03 September 2015
The latest report on agricultural and forestry machinery industry 2015 market has been released with growth, trends, insights, analysis and research dissected in new research. Source: Whatech The report, titled Agricultural And Forestry Machinery Market Research 2015, presents a compr
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3 trillion trees in the world

03 September 2015
There are a lot of trees to hug on planet Earth, if you are so inclined. In fact new research has estimated there are currently 3 trillion all up, significantly more than previously thought. Source: Sydney Morning Herald But despite the seemingly high numbers, researchers behind the n
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Correction Australasian Timber August

03 September 2015
There was an omission of a word in the FWPA-featured article (page 12 Australasian Timber, August edition) last paragraph… “the EPD for 1m3 of Australian sawn kiln-dried and planed softwood shows that it stores 900 kg of carbon. It is actually 900kg of carbon dioxide.
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