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Global effort to plant 23 million seedlings in Green Triangle

17 June 2020
More than 23 million tree seedlings are being planted across the Green Triangle this winter aided by a global work effort. A hardworking team of about 150 tree planters, including a large percentage of foreign backpackers, are painstakingly planting both hardwood (eucalyptus globulus
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Inquiry into timber supply chain in plantation sector

17 June 2020
The House Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources has launched an inquiry into timber supply chain constraints in the Australian plantation sector. Australia’s forest productions manufacturing sector is worth more than $23 billion each year and currently, Australian plan
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Tasmania encouraging plantation and research for the future

15 June 2020
According to Private Forests Tasmania (PFT) there is a global shortage of timber, and farmers are the key to delivering the commercially viable resource of the future. In fact, the global demand for timber is expected to quadruple by 2050 (The World Bank, 2016). Source: Timberbiz With
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Buy Aussie Timber First to support the industry

15 June 2020
Timberlink has backed the Australian Forest Products Association’s campaign to help sustain and support the Aussie timber industry through the CoViD-19 economic downturn. Timberlink CEO Ian Tyson said that in “normal economic times” Australia produced around 80% of the softwood timber
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Federal Government urged to commit $50m to bioenergy roadmap

15 June 2020
The Australian Forest Products Association wants the Federal Government to commit $50 million in funding to help turbocharge the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s ‘Bioenergy Roadmap’. Source: Timberbiz The Roadmap will support Australia’s movement towards a renewable biofuture, cre
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Victorian MPs fighting to overturn Federal Court decision on native forestry

15 June 2020
Victorian Federal Coalition MPs are seeking a meeting this week with the Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, urging her to override a Federal Court decision that threatens the future of the native forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz – Philip Hopkins Gippsland MP Darren Chester, who has
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A snapshot of imports and exports of sawn softwood, paper and pulp

12 June 2020
Imports of sawn softwood continued within the expected range in April 2020, with shipments totalling 37,203 m3 for the month. That was 16% higher than the prior month, but 500 m3 below the average of the last year. Source: Tim Woods IndustryEdge However, the average export price plung
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VicForest responds to Mountain Ash listing as endangered

12 June 2020
The Mountain Ash forest ecosystem in the Central Highlands of Victoria is listed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Ecosystems and is categorised as critically endangered. This listing is based on an ecological assessment conducted in 2014.
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Opinion Philip Hopkins: Where is Australia going wrong exporting timber?

12 June 2020
Europe’s huge forestry sector is underpinned by making most of its forests available to industry and much less forest is locked up in conservation areas compared with Australia, the latest forestry reports show. Europe, regarded as the home of sustainable forestry, has 215 million hec
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Friday analysis: From possums to paper bags, the more things change the more they stay the same

12 June 2020
There is no escaping some issues, they resurface over and over but despite very learned reports, researched and written by very learned men and women knee jerk reactions remain – of course I am talking about our Leadbeater’s possum. Clearly cute but clearly not as endangered as we are
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