Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board wants to capitalise on favourable growing conditions and access to Asian markets having taken a 30 percent stake in the central North Island's Kaingaroa forestry estate. Source: Paul McBeth, The National Business Review

New Zealand forest owners will vote in March on a plan that aims to give all commercial forest and woodlot owners a say in the future of their industry. Source: Timberbiz

Australian workers feeling stressed in the lead-up to Christmas should access beyondblue’s new online programs to help them understand and tackle depression and anxiety in the workplace. Source: Timberbiz

Australia’s earnings from agricultural, fisheries and forestry exports are forecast to remain strong in 2012-13, at around $39.5 billion. Source: ABARES

Forests NSW has employed 15 temporary fire fighters to help protect the State’s valuable pine plantations and surrounding communities in its Hume Region around Tumut, Batlow and Tumbarumba. Source: Forests NSW

This is the final edition of Daily Timber News for 2012 and we have a break until early in the New Year.

Stirling Fildes ‐ an Australian‐owned pharmacy labelling, printing, packaging and consumables company ‐ will offer the world’s first carbon neutral paper to its customers. Australian Paper, Australia’s only packaging paper manufacturer, created the carbon neutral MG

The European Union will no longer allow timber products from Nigeria into the its markets as from March 2013, according to a Nigerian official. Source: Leadership NG