The New Zealand forest industry has established a safety council to make forests safer places to work. This was a key recommendation of the Independent Forestry Safety Review Panel that reviewed forest workplace safety in 2014.  Source: Timberbiz The Forest Industry Safety Council wil

A logging company majority-owned by Solomon Islands’ forestry minister is facing a legal challenge from landowners keen to protect the cloud forest on Kolombangara Island. Source: ABC News The ground-breaking case has been in and out of the courts for five years and is due for i

Trees do the vital job of absorbing carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, and producing oxygen. But at the moment, the only way to measure how much carbon is stored in a tree is to chop it down and weigh it. Source: Euronews So a new technique is being developed, which

IKEA is one of the largest furniture companies on Earth. It’s one of the largest companies on Earth. When a company this big decides to make even a slight change to how it makes or sources its products, it’s a massive undertaking. Source: Gizmodo That’s exactly what IKEA is doing righ

China continued to dominate global log trade and was setting a new record high in the consumption of imported softwood logs in 2014. Source: Business Wire The seemingly endless increase in demand for wood raw materials from the manufacturers of wood products in China has resulted in y

Marlborough-based Green Party MP Steffan Browning has commented on the state of the Havelock estuary. An article in the Marlborough Express discussed the mud in Havelock Estuary and raised the question of the cause of the increased mud. Was it farming or forestry, or both? Sources: St

A parliamentary inquiry into the sale of the Triabunna woodchip mill on Tasmania’s east coast has recommended the wharf stay in public hands. Source: ABC News A Liberal-dominated parliamentary committee has been investigating the 2011 sale of the former Gunns mill to multi-milli

Andrew Hurford is better known for milling durable eucalypts into quality flooring, and selling it into an eager market. But his family company is also creating best-practice timber plantations on the Far North Coast of New South Wales by growing commercial eucalypt species. Source: F