As it turns out, the old, dying tree from Queens Gardens that the council gave to the Centre for Fine Woodworking is in fact a particularly rare Cyprus cedar, the oldest of its type in Australasia. Source: Stuff NZ The tree, one of the first planted by European settlers in Nelson, New

A wood chopping competition Kimbolton, New Zealnd is gaining a reputation in just its second year following   a 14-year hiatus. Source: Manawatu Standard Colleen Gibbins and husband Julian own the Kimbolton Hotel, and said it was good to see the event back on the calendar. “It u

Victorians will be banned from collecting firewood from public land this year. Source: The Weekly Times Community leaders fear elderly people using wood for heating and cooking are most vulnerable to the bans across northern Victoria. For the first time since European settlement, publ

A review of global biosecurity undertaken by Scion Principal Scientist Dr Eckehard (Ecki) Brockerhoff and colleagues from the University of Pretoria highlights the urgent need for a global biosecurity strategy for planted forests. Source: Scion The review was published recently in the

New Zealand minister Jo Goodhew presented at the recent ForestWood Conference 2016. Source: Timberbiz In her speech she said the New Zealand Government was focused on meeting its key economic growth objectives and that the focus of the conference was how forestry and wood processing s

Extreme droughts could lead to widespread death of eucalypts from embolisms, researchers say. Source: ABC News The trees cannot quickly adjust the size of their water transport vessels to cope with variability in water supply. Their findings, published in this Ecology Letters, show th

Logging of native forests has cost NSW taxpayers $78 million over the past six years for a declining industry that is also a primary risk for the state’s rising number of threatened species, according to a report by The Australia Institute. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald The

A seed bank project in remote northern Australia is training Aboriginal women in horticulture to help protect plant biodiversity of the region. Source: ABC News Nyul Nyul, Karajarri and Bardi Jawi Oorany women ranger groups are being taught to collect, store, and propagate culturally