Two major information pieces were released this week that that provide reliable information on Australian forestry. Source: Timberbiz The first is Australia’s Forestry Industry 2015 map that shows a detailed snapshot of the forestry industry, including the location of major wood

  Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, told the forestry industry to stand up for itself. Source: Timberbiz When Senator Richard Colbeck opened the Australia New Zealand Institute of Foresters conference in Victoria he used his speech

  At the opening of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Foresters conference this week Rob de Fégely of the Institute of Foresters suggested that Australia is not pulling its own weight in the wood industry. Source: Timberbiz Australia has 125 million hectares of forest,

Russia is now the world leader in terms of forestry destruction, a new survey showed, with fires blamed for destroying hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of woodland since the millennium. Source: The Moscow Times Russia lost a staggering 37.22 million hectares (370,000 square

Making wooden furniture from scratch is a complicated process: you grow a tree for 60 or more years, only to chop it down, peel off its bark, cut it up into little pieces, and then finally join it all back together into a whole new shape. Sources: Fastcodesign, The Guardian UK When su

  Canada can feel proud that its forest products industry has become a world leader in environmental credentials. Source: The Nelson Daily For an industry that was admittedly once an environmental offender, the past few decades have been a remarkable journey. The latest statistic

Nominations are open for the Australian Timber Floor of the Year 2015 competition. All tradespeople within the timber flooring industry who are members of the ATFA and have completed either a commercial or residential timber floor between 1 April 2014 and 30 April 2015 are eligible to

The small farming community of Kyogle scored a rare win over the government’s bureaucratic barriers for timber bridge repair. Source: The Land Kyogle Council, in North East New South Wales, has a massive 203 crumbling timber bridges on its books, the largest number needing repla