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Friday analysis: Bob Brown makes another jump to a false conclusion

05 November 2021
Give Bob Brown an inch and he’ll take a heck of a lot more than just a mile. Take this week’s quite valid pledge out of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use signed by more than 100 world leaders including our own prime minister Scott Morrison to halt deforestation
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Howitt Society critical of Parks Victoria’s land management

03 November 2021
Parks Victoria’s draft land management strategy has been strongly criticised by the Howitt Society for completely ignoring the biggest threat to Victoria’s native forests – massive wildfires. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz The society, in its submission to the review of the draf
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AKD opens its doors to apprentices, graduates and gap year employees

03 November 2021
AKD has begun the process for employing its 2022 intake of apprentices, graduates and gap year employees. As the Australian community finally starts emerging from the past 12 months’ challenges, AKD will bring in more than 30 new employees through three talent programs across the coun
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Forestry commits to COP26 but state governments need to rethink native wood

03 November 2021
Australia’s forest industries have welcomed and expressed their support for a commitment by world leaders at the Glasgow Climate Change Summit to halt deforestation by 2030. Australian Forest Products Association CEO Ross Hampton said forests were the world’s lungs and needed to be su
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Forestry Now – the State of the Industry Review

03 November 2021
The past two years has been a period of upheaval within the timber industry nationally with bushfires, COVID lockdowns, China, plans to halt the native timber industry in at least two States and legal challenges to the timber industry as a whole. We believe the time is right to take a
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Treemapper app helps planning, mapping and managing trees

01 November 2021
Private Forests Tasmania and the Forest Practices Authority have developed Treemapper, a farm and forestry property planning app. Source: Timberbiz The Property Planning Mapper mobile application will deliver a handful of mapping and calculator tools to provide immediate farm-planning
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Carbon store in buildings to count

01 November 2021
NSW Treasurer and Environment Minister Matt Kean’s announcement to include carbon stored within buildings as part of rating new major developments was a welcome development. Source: Timberbiz According to the Australian Forest Products Association NSW this announcement means new major
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Australian architects want every new home and extension sustainable

01 November 2021
Australian Architect members of the global organisation Architects Declare are having their say on the National Construction Code updates to make sure every new home – without costing more – will raise the required standards of sustainability. Source: Timberbiz Architects Declare, in
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Decline in Tassie plantations a focus for Private Forests Tasmania

01 November 2021
The scale of the decline in Tasmanian plantation area while timber supply shortages persist, remains an important focus for the ongoing work program of Tasmania’s private forests group. Source: Timberbiz Private Forests Tasmania chairman Evan Rolley, in PFT’s annual report tabled in S
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AFPA calls for NSW regions to be included in the Emissions Reduction Fund

01 November 2021
The Australian Forest Products Association NSW wants the timber plantation regions of Oberon/Bathurst and Eden/Bombala included in the Emissions Reduction Fund. Source: Timberbiz Southern Tasmania, Gippsland, the Victorian side of the Green Triangle and Kangaroo Island were added to t
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