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Tas specialty timber workers seek UNESCO support

09 July 2015
Tasmanian specialty timber workers may have Federal Government backing in their bid to have their craft recognised by UNESCO. Source: ABC News The specialty timber sector wants access to about 9000 hectares of World Heritage-listed forest. It believes Tasmania’s cultural history
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NZ Forest Investments lands new board members

09 July 2015
OTPP New Zealand Forest Investments Ltd has announced the appointment to its board of two highly experienced directors, Jane Taylor and Traci Houpapa. Source: Voxy NZ Company chairman Don Huse said the new directors brought not only a wealth of governance background to the board but w
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AFPA warns don’t scare off foreign investors

09 July 2015
The Australian Forest Products Association has become the latest industry group to back the current foreign investment laws, cautioning the government not to jeopardise the flow of overseas capital into regional agribusinesses. Source: The Australian AFPA chief executive Ross Hampton
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CBA penalizes victims of Willmott Forests

09 July 2015
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is playing hard ball against victims of failed managed investment scheme Willmott Forests, levying penalty interest rates over the period of a long-running class action against the bank, which has doubled the amount owed by some investors. Source: Th
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Battery power from wood

02 July 2015
A mattress made of tree pulp could one day charge your mobile phone, according to cutting-edge research from KTH, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Source: The ABC The researchers published a scientific paper in the latest issue of Nature Communications describing the process
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Native vegetation clearing regs review

02 July 2015
The Victorian Government is reviewing the native vegetation permitted clearing regulations to ensure they sensibly protect sensitive native vegetation. Source: Timberbiz, Victorian Association of Forest Industries A stakeholder reference group has been established to gather the views
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Beating the drum for possums again

02 July 2015
Plans to expand native forest logging areas have concerned those attempting to protect the state’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum. Source: Warragul & Baw Baw Citizen The critically endangered possum is found in mountain ash, shining gum and alpine ash forests in sub-alpine
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Biomass are we missing out?

02 July 2015
Australia is missing out on a major export industry, and a source of clean energy. Source: The Daily Advertiser In the US and particularly in Canada, timber waste, including sawdust, harvest residues, timber that is not millable, and salvage logs from areas hit by disease or fire is t
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Giant arboretum in New South Wales

02 July 2015
The volunteer botanists in central west New South Wales who dream of opening an arboretum of giant trees have a very long term vision and won’t really see the fruits of their labour in their lifetimes. Source: ABC Central West NSW For nearly a decade they have been working to es
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Sandalwood industry in WA to be overhauled

02 July 2015
Western Australia dominates the world supply of fragrant Sandalwood, but now it faces its biggest challenger yet … itself. Source: WA Today Plantation sandalwood will soon be mature enough to harvest and begin to compete against wild sandalwood. And the state government is now c
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