New Zealand is to expand investment restrictions in the country’s lucrative forestry sector that would require foreign investors to gain regulatory approval before receiving the rights to harvest trees. Source: Reuters Associate Finance Minister David Parker said in an emailed stateme

Timber trains are expected to resume running by the end of this year on part of KiwiRail’s mothballed Napier – Gisborne line in the east of North Island, the operator announced on February 26. Source: The Railway Gazette The line has been out of use for the past six years, but KiwiRai

OneFortyOne Plantations has announced that as a result of strong domestic demand and the continued out-performance across the building industry, it has advised customers that there will be no sawlog exported from its estate for the next financial year.  Source: Timberbiz OFO’s Chief E

Entries are being accepted for the 2018 NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards, with Stage One entries closing at 5pm on Thursday 30 April. Source: Architecture Now These awards are the premier space for architects, engineers and others to profile their recent work with locally-sourced t

The last pine trees have been felled in a major Hawkes Bay conservation project in New Zealand that aims to convert a 4000-hectare pine plantation back to regenerating native forest. Source: Timberbiz More than 3500 hectares of the Maungataniwha Pine Forest have now been logged since

The Andrews government has spent years investigating claims of unlawful logging against its state-owned timber company without enforcing any penalties. Source: The Age Documents reveal Victoria’s environment department is currently probing 27 alleged forest breaches against VicF

VicForests is pleased that the Federal Court has rejected the argument brought against it by the Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum (FLBP). The Court found that VicForests was not affected by government delays in reviewing the Central Highlands Regional Forest Agreement (RFA). Sources: Ti

Papua New Guinea’s Forestry Minister says the government is cancelling defective Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) as relevant departments work their way through the legalities of the process. Source: Radio New Zealand Under the SABL system, about 12% of the countryR