The battle lines for a renewal of the logging wars in south-east New South Wales are being drawn as environmental groups dispute the State Government’s commitment to protecting newly-created flora reserves. Source: ABC News The Mumbulla, Murrah, and Tanja State Forests and half

More and more carmakers are developing and launching electric vehicles, but Toyota ups the ante with some serious design style and a wooden body. Source: Information Week Japanese carmaker Toyota is bringing a fresh twist to the expanding market of electric vehicles with the debut of

Papua New Guinea Government has described a recent report on logging in the country as ‘half baked’ and not true. Source: PNG Today The report by the US based think tank, the Oakland Institute titled The Great Timber Heist: The Logging Industry in Papua New Guinea highligh

NGATI Porou Forestry Ltd (NPFL) manages interests such as Crown forests, private investor forests and the Ngati Porou Whanui Forests/Hansol NZ joint venture. Source: Gisborne Herald Hansol is a South Korean conglomerate that provided the funds to establish and manage the forests. The

The recent closures of the Hukarahi Block near Whitianga and the iconic Manaia Sanctuary to prevent the spread of kauri dieback have been welcomed by the Coromandel Kauri Dieback Forum. Source: Voxy nz The Department of Conservation announced the closures last month and Forum chair Vi

The Forest Owners Association has joined forces with Federated Farmers in opposing councils which want to declare themselves genetically modified free. It has said the councils’ moves would be “unworkable”. Source: Stuff co nz At present Federated Farmers is appealin

Australia’s largest forestry equipment supplier, Komatsu Forest is reporting its best sales record in its 25-year history. Source: ABC Rural Globally, Komatsu Limited turns over US$26 billion each year and its forestry arm, Komatsu Forest is the single biggest player in forestry

Australia has hardly any native deciduous trees. Why do we mostly have evergreens? Is it too hot for deciduous trees to have evolved, or is there another reason? Source: ABC News There are only a few trees native to Australia that are deciduous and that makes us pretty unique. “