With the theme: WOOD: housing, health, humanity. – Planet Ark and Wood Naturally Better (FWPA’s generic marketing consumer brand) are celebrating World Wood Day by building a nanoHouse in front of the Customs House at Sydney’s Circular Quay. Souce: Timberbiz Prefabricated and designed

                      The new Sen Comfort bicycle handlebar grips from Munich’s Velospring combine beautiful, ageless aesthetics with innovative technological design and the warmth of wood. Source: Gizmag, Velospring The war

Tom Hayes, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture with special responsibility for forestry announced that the Government has secured state aid approval for a new forestry program in Ireland. Source: Irish Farmers’ Journal Highlights of the new program include €428 million

Drones, laser scanners, planes and sharp shooters have been put to work in the Tasmanian forest to better understand the environmental effects of forest management regimes. Source: Timberbiz Researchers from The University of Queensland worked with CSIRO, Forestry Tasmania and the Uni

New Zealand’s largest sawmill, Rotorua’s Red Stag Timber, has announced a major new television program sponsorship, called The Red Stag Timber Hunters Club. Source: Rotorua Daily Post The 10 part series, to be broadcast on Sky Sport starting in April, travels the length an

An award-winning temporary house for disaster victims, designed by three Innovative Central Queensland University students, has withstood Tropical Cyclone Marcia. Sources: The Mornington Bulletin, Infolink Taking home the top prize at the 2014 The Big Idea competition, Angus Hughes, J

The WA Greens have called for a rethink on logging in forests during fire bans, after the State Government revealed chainsaws and heavy machinery are used despite Department of Fire and Emergency Service (DFES) warnings. Source: ABC News The Government has confirmed contractors for th

A forecasted demand for lumber due to a boost in Chinese housing projects could support a new saw and pulp mill near Kaikohe New Zealand, creating a NZ$45 million industry in Northland and up to 500 jobs if the project progressed. Sources: NZ Herald, Northern Advocate Powered with low