Forest owners are welcoming the planned introduction of the new clearance levy to help fund border biosecurity in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz “It is important that those who benefit from travel and tourism pay their share of keeping our farms, forests, orchards and national parks s

Listen to the industry leaders and architects and be inspired, ensure your residential timber building knowledge is up-to-date, explore the economics of timber as structural and decorative members of residential buildings at this WoodSolutions event. Source: Timberbiz If you design, s

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