AUSTimber is an industry event that has been running in Australia in one form or another since the 1970s. The point of difference is the concentration on demonstration of advanced machinery rather than a simple exhibition. Source: Timberbiz AUSTimber has also had a strong focus on for

It has created a modest 200 jobs in a Finnish forestry industry that has lost around 20,000 in the past decade, but UPM-Kymmene’s new biofuels plant offers long-awaited growth and hope. Sources: 7 News, Reuters The 180 million euro ($200 million) investment in wood-based renewab

Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the European Union. The action in the Białowieża forest is intended to fight the spread of the spruce bark beetle. “We’re

Respected German newspaper, Die Welt, published an article under the title “The naive carelessness of the wood burner.” Source: Treehugger In fairness to the complexities of translation, the German word “Sorglosigkeit” might also be translated as “carefre

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