The Solomon Islands Prime Minister said his government is addressing some of the difficulties the logging industry is having with commercial banks operating in his country. Source: Radio New Zealand

How can Southeast Asia's forests accelerate a shift to green growth, increase climate resilience and fight poverty? Source: Timberbiz

San Francisco-based New Forests is planning a new wave of deals, targeting up to $1.7 billion of Australia's state-owned pine forests ahead of an expected surge in demand from China and the US. Source: The Australian

The possible return of tens of thousands of hectares of timber plantation to productive agricultural land across NSW’s high rainfall zones is being welcomed as a potential economic and social boon to bush communities. Source: The Land

Chair of the New Zealand Wood Council Bill McCallum told the biennial Forest-Wood conference in Wellington that the Government needs to step up in a number of areas if the sector is to reach its export earnings target of $12 billion by 2022. Source: Radio New Zealand

The Government needs to stimulate domestic demand for wood to stop New Zealand forestry from being dangerously reliant on the Chinese log trade. Sources: Fairfax NZ News, Scoop.co.nz

A Labour Government in New Zealand would offer targeted tax incentives to those investing in the timber processing industry, according to a new action plan published by the opposition party. Source: Tax News

Labour is to announce a plan to get long term unemployed working in forestry when Leader David Cunliffe speaks to an industry conference in Wellington. Source: The New Zealand Herald