A major financier has repossessed equipment from the owner of forestry business HarvestPro New Zealand. An official from GE Finance and Insurance in Auckland said equipment located in Auckland, Gisborne and Northland was repossessed from the company KFI Asset Management. Source: New Z

A group of Solomon Islands timber exporters and government officials visited Australia and New Zealand to promote exports of sawn timber. Sources: Scoop News, Timberbiz The export mission started in Brisbane on 22 – 25 March and moved to Auckland from 25-30 March 2015. The group met w

Exposure to wood products and interiors has measurable health benefits, similar those created by spending time in nature, a new report commissioned by Planet Ark has found. Source: Timberbiz There are significant health, well being and environmental benefits to incorporating wood and

The Forest Owners Association (FOA) is calling on the Government to do more to discourage deforestation in New Zealand. Sources: Timberbiz. Scoop News, Radio New Zealand On United Nations International Day of Forests held on 21 March, the association said the Government was failing to

  An increasing number of companies in New Zealand are taking on PEFC Chain of Custody certification. Source: Timberbiz With the acceptance of the NZ Forest Certification Association (NZFCA) as New Zealand’s PEFC member, New Zealand forest growers gain visibility in the world’s l

The South Australian Government has committed to replanting 150 hectares of a forest, in the state’s mid north, destroyed by bushfire. Source: ABC Rural Fire destroyed 450 hectares of the Bundaleer Forest, south of Jamestown, in January 2013 leaving an estimated area of 100 hect

  Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, is calling on stakeholders to put forward their views about the future of Australia’s forest products and forest industry. Source: Timberbiz Senator Colbeck launched the issues paper Meeting futur

In the hills of northern Michigan a once-dilapidated warehouse in the town of Copemish brims with thousands of tiny saplings. But these trees are not as young as their sizes would suggest. Source: Scientific American A nonprofit, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, has cloned from tissue