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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Eucalypts are the future for Tiwi

As the traditional owners of the Tiwi Islands gear up for their first woodchip harvest of Acacia mangium trees, there are nearby trials showing what the future of Tiwi forestry will look like. Source: ABC Rural A variety of eucalyptus trees are showing significant growing advantages t
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Bruny Island logging scare is for the birds

A Tasmanian wildlife tour operator says she fears her business will be destroyed if a planned logging operation goes ahead next to her Bruny Island property. Source: ABC News Forestry Tasmania is preparing to log a coupe next door to the conservation area, which is home to threatened
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Government reports and forestry maps released

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
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Take a stand for forestry says Colbeck

  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
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Australians bludging wood off the world

  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,
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Russia leads forestry destruction

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
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Grow your own furniture

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
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Canada on top of the wood pile

  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
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