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Drones protect the Amazon

11 June 2015
Drones have had a lot of bad press and hype that has slowed their acceptance by regulators and the public but they perform valuable services like search and rescue and inspection that can’t be done any other way. Source: Engadget A great example of that is work being done by the
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Forest deal expands climate change

11 June 2015
After a decade of talks a plan to unlock billions of dollars to protect great rainforests, improve living conditions for indigenous communities and help fight climate change has been settled. Source: The Australian Saving equatorial forests has been identified as the most effective wa
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China introduces logging bans

11 June 2015
Zhang Jianlong, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration of China, said a logging ban has already been put in place in some key areas, especially in the country’s three northeastern provinces, on trial basis this year. Source: Caixin Online The prohibition will be ex
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Green Dream of Canadian youth

04 June 2015
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has announced the winners of this year’s summer 2015 Green Dream Internship program. Source: CNW Fifteen students are receiving a scholarship and an iPad mini to help them blog about their adventures as interns in Canada’s f
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No logging because APRIL is no fool

04 June 2015
One of the world’s largest manufacturers of pulp and paper in Indonesia has announced it will immediately stop logging in all natural forests. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Loss of forest habitat through pulp and paper logging and palm oil plantations has pushed endangered s
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Future cars and fuel from the forests

04 June 2015
Imagine a future where minerals extracted from the ground are no longer the dominant energy source instead it is wood. Source: Timberbiz Huge eucalypt forests could provide biofuel for Bentleys and jet fuel for Boeings, while carbon-fibre car bodies could be produced from genetically
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Global Timber Forum Summit

27 May 2015
Delegates from around the world are lining up to hear internationally known industry experts at the Global Timber Forum Summit from June 9-11 in Shanghai. Source: Timberbiz Architect Pierre Thibault, speaking from huge and varied experience, will address timber’s current and future po
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New harvester head at SkogsElmia

27 May 2015
SP Maskiner’s SP 451 harvester head has an updated successor, called the SP 461 LF and is being presented at SkogsElmia from 4 to 6 June. “We’ve updated the entire engineering design,” said sales manager Gustav Granath. Mr Granath is a new face at the company. Last spring he succeeded
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Ponsse presents at SkogsElmia

27 May 2015
Ponsse is coming to SkogsElmia, which is on from 4-6 June at Jonkoping with a forwarder that’s half new. Source: Timberbiz It’s the company’s smallest model, the 10-tonne Gazelle. “It’s new ahead of the centre pivot,” said Eero Lukkarinen, managing director of Ponsse AB in Sweden. Gaz
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Trees are not the strong silent types

21 May 2015
Do trees communicate with each other?  And if so, how? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. They might seem like the strong, tall and silent type, but trees actually communicate with each other. Source: ABC Science Forest ecologist Dr Suzanne Simard, from the University of British Colombi
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