A rare native timber that's already in danger of extinction across three continents now faces a new threat in Australia. Native sandalwood can fetch $15,000 a tonne on world markets but that high price has led to a thriving trade in timber poaching. Source: ABC News (7.30 Report)

Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal logging, harming local communities and risking the destruction of the world's second largest forest, according to a report by a campaign group. Source: The West Australian

Actor Woody Harrelson is supporting a company called Prairie Pulp and Paper that produces paper made from waste wheat straw. Harrelson said he wants to get in on the movement that will see North America's first non-wood pulp-and-paper mill set up. Source: The Canadian Press, CBC News

Australia’s first dedicated show for sawmilling, wood panels and wood manufacturing, WoodEXPO 2013 is attracting international interest. Source: Timberbiz

The Centre for Research and Action in Public Health of the University of Canberra is studying how working in the forest, wood and paper products industries influences the health and wellbeing of the people employed in these industries. Source: Timberbiz

Administrators of failed Tasmanian timber producer Gunns have made public a full list of the company's creditors. Gunns owes hundreds of people, businesses and government departments millions of dollars. Source: ABC News

Green groups will resume their war against the Tasmanian timber industry on Monday after the collapse of forest peace talks. Source: The Australia, AAP

Join the Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) to get industry information, to be with other people in the same line of business and to win prizes. Source: Timberbiz