China’s forestry trade volume reached US$70.97 billion in the first half of this year, up 10.8% year on year, official data showed. Source: China Daily Total value of the forestry sector’s output reached 2.77 trillion yuan, up 7.4% year on year, according to the State Fore

Australian Forest Contractor’s Australia (AFCA) Green Triangle regional meeting and forest owners and service providers – uniform safety audit launch will be held today. Source: Timberbiz This AFCA regional meeting will provide an update on: the Log Haulage Registered Code of Pr

The School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) is offering a PhD scholarship for a motivated student to contribute to research being undertaken within the Centre for Future Timber Structures and the Fire Safety Engineering Research Group. Source:

The Green Building Council of Australia has introduced a new criteria for low and zero-carbon buildings in the latest changes to its Green Star rating. Source: Architecture Au Five- and six-star Green Star-rated buildings will now have to meet minimum greenhouse gas emission standards

Respected forester Dr Hans Drielsma has been elected chairman of Australian Forestry Standard Ltd. Source: Timberbiz Dr Drielsma, who has served as interim chairman since the resignation of Kate Carnell AO at the AFS AGM in Sydney last year, was elected at a recent meeting of the AFS

WA’s conservation department is investigating whether a forest near Nannup contains old-growth trees and should be spared from a Government logging operation. Source: Perth Now The Barrabup forest, 5km from Nannup in the South-West, is earmarked for logging by the State-run Forest Pro

The Tasmanian State Government and the state-owned company formerly known as Forestry Tasmania are remaining tight-lipped on the sale of the state’s public forest plantations. Source: The Mercury As of July 1, Forestry Tasmania became known as Sustainable Timber Tasmania under a State

The New Zealand Government is helping fund a two-year project to investigate the feasibility of remediating treated timber. Source: Newshub t’s contributing NZ$163,000 to the project carried out by Scion, a Crown research institute that specialises in research, science and techn