The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has congratulated the federal Labor Party for re-introducing ‘fisheries’ and ‘forestry’ to the Shadow Agriculture portfolio title in the Shadow Ministry reshuffle. Source: Timberbiz Chief Executive Officer of AFPA, Mr Ross Hampton said
Lumber Liquidators announced a settlement with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) related to the Company’s compliance with the Lacey Act. Source: PR Wire This concludes the DOJ’s inquiry launched in 2013, which primarily related to cert
One startup wants to use drones that can reforest our increasingly tree-strapped Earth, on a big enough scale to replace slow and expensive hired humans. Source: Gizmodo The small company, called BioCarbon Engineering, says unmanned aerial vehicles are a great way of covering ravaged
World demand for forestry equipment including purpose-built and converted machinery is forecast to climb 4.5% annually to US$9.3 billion in 2019. Source: PR Wire This will represent a moderation from the 2009-2014 pace of increase, a period during which market gains were bolstered by
Developed and built in-house, Scion’s new ‘DiscBot’ is a novel scanning technology designed to assess a range of wood properties that affect the quality of sawn timber and other end products. Source: Scion The automated disc scanner uses a robot to move wood discs past different senso
Competitive arborists from around New Zealand will be scaling the trees around Nelson’s church steps as fast as they can. Source: Stuff.co.nz, Nelson Mail Around 30 climbers, with several world champions amongst them, have gathered for a two-day national tree climbing competitio
Plans to remediate the 8900-hectare Linkletters estate in Esperance in the Western Australian wheatbelt, valued at $17.65 million, have been put on hold by its owners and managers as they consider ways to extract value from its vast bluegum plantations. Source: The Australian Financia
Major gains are in store for Australian agriculture producers in the world’s largest regional trade agreement with Australian farmers set to gain major new market access for agricultural products according to the federal government. Source: Timberbiz Minister for Agriculture and Water
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