The eighth death in New Zealand's forests this year has renewed calls for more action from the Government. Source: Stuff.co.nz, Fairfax NZ News

The forest industry is bringing in North American experts to a conference this week to help it tackle the high injury and death rates in New Zealand plantations. Source: Radio New Zealand

The Brooweena sawmill south of Bundaberg has been given the order to close after workplace health and safety officers deemed one section of the mill, a single bench, unsafe for workers to operate. Sources: ABC News, The Fraser Coast Chronicle

Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) has announced the establishment of a reference group to provide strategic direction to its new Statistics and Economics Program. Source: Timberbiz

An ABARES report has exposed the ousted Labor-Green Government for mismanagement of the Australian forest industry according to Senator Richard Colbeck. Source: Timberbiz

California businesses covered by the state's cap-and-trade program will be able to use forest conservation projects to offset the carbon emissions from their plants and factories after the state issued the first batch of credits. Source: The Business Spectator

The Department of Agriculture in Ireland has announced the immediate availability of financial approvals for forestry planting. Source: Independent.ie (Ireland)

A new US$280m initiative to help save the world's remaining forests was launched by the UK, the US and Norway at the United Nations climate change talks in Warsaw. Source: The Guardian (UK)