New Zealand’s Bioenergy Association supports the introduction of legislation that encourages bioenergy for the production of electricity, as it will provide employment and economic growth for rural areas. Source: Timberbiz

Greenheart NZ Forestry, the Northland forester whose ultimate owner shifted from failed Sino-Forest Corp to a Cayman Islands based company this year, has lifted its annual harvest by 60% and sales by 35%, its 2012 accounts show. Source: Scoop Independent News

Forestry group OneFortyOne Plantations (OFO) has finalised its Australian management team with the appointment of its chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO). Source: Timberbiz

There have been steady increases in the global trade of wood chips in the past 10 years with Japan and China importing 83% of traded hardwood chips in 2012. Source: The Wood Resource Quarterly

Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Management has banned the use AMEC machines in state owned plantations. Source: All Africa

Figures in a government report show the Green Triangle region has reduced its dependence on the forestry industry for employment. Source: ABC News

Forestry professionals will head to the centre of dairy farming country at the end of this month to attend the NZ Institute of Forestry’s annual conference “The Place of Forests in Collaborative Land Use Decisions”. Source: Scoop NZ

The Forestry Corporation of NSW (formerly Forests NSW) has begun planting 3.9 million pine seedlings in plantations around Tumut, Tumbarumba and Batlow. Source: Timberbiz