A mattress made of tree pulp could one day charge your mobile phone, according to cutting-edge research from KTH, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Source: The ABC The researchers published a scientific paper in the latest issue of Nature Communications describing the process

New-generation forest owners are managing their own forests and aiming for more than just a return on their investment. Source: Timberbiz At least as important to them is to care for their forests in a long-term, environmentally suitable way. That was clear among both the visitors and

The Victorian Government is reviewing the native vegetation permitted clearing regulations to ensure they sensibly protect sensitive native vegetation. Source: Timberbiz, Victorian Association of Forest Industries A stakeholder reference group has been established to gather the views

Plans to expand native forest logging areas have concerned those attempting to protect the state’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum. Source: Warragul & Baw Baw Citizen The critically endangered possum is found in mountain ash, shining gum and alpine ash forests in sub-alpine

Australia is missing out on a major export industry, and a source of clean energy. Source: The Daily Advertiser In the US and particularly in Canada, timber waste, including sawdust, harvest residues, timber that is not millable, and salvage logs from areas hit by disease or fire is t

The volunteer botanists in central west New South Wales who dream of opening an arboretum of giant trees have a very long term vision and won’t really see the fruits of their labour in their lifetimes. Source: ABC Central West NSW For nearly a decade they have been working to es

Western Australia dominates the world supply of fragrant Sandalwood, but now it faces its biggest challenger yet … itself. Source: WA Today Plantation sandalwood will soon be mature enough to harvest and begin to compete against wild sandalwood. And the state government is now c

Sydney-based investment manager New Forests has announced the purchase of a 4000 hectare forestry in the Hautu-Rangipo region near Turangi in the central North Island of New Zealand. Source: Voxy NZ The right was acquired as part of a back-to-back deal with Hautu-Rangipo Whenau Limite