New Zealand Forest Owners Association

Forest fires — spurred by hot and dry weather — have destroyed large areas of forest in Siberia.  But the Russian Government and Russia's Greenpeace are disputing the scale of destruction.

A major forest owner has started a partnership with a conservation group, the Project Kiwi Trust, to monitor and protect Coromandel brown kiwi living in a large radiata pine plantation near Whitianga.

Total forest product export revenues for the March 2012 quarter declined 14 per cent since the December 2011 quarter to $954 million, according to the Ministry of Primary Industries. 

A forest fire near Hyde, Otago, on Friday and Saturday will be the subject of an official investigation.

The ecology of tropical hardwoods makes logging with truly sustainable practices not only impractical, but completely unprofitable, according to a new study published in Bioscience. Given this, the researchers recommend industrial logging subsidies be dropped from the UN's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme.

Dunedin company City Forests says the government should abandon the Kyoto Protocol, rather than commit to revised rules it fears could lumber forestry companies with "massive" additional costs.

“New Zealand’s only Timber Design Awards achieved a massive jump in entries this year, reflecting the desire of professionals to differentiate themselves and their practices from the rest,” says NZ Wood CEO Jane Arnott.

Despite the deluge over the weekend, Marlborough forestry sites have held up well.

As the Canterbury Earthquake’s Royal Commission seeks submissions into the topic of ‘Building Management after Earthquakes’ New Zealand’s Timber Design Society (TDS), a technical subgroup of the Institute of Professional Engineers (IPENZ), prepares to host a World Conference on Timber Engineering.

The newly established NZIF Foundation made its first awards at the New Zealand Institute of Forestry conference dinner in Christchurch last week.