Forestry News

21 August 2012

The Australian Federal Government has begun a crackdown on illegal logging with its legislation being carried by the lower house of parliament. The bill bans the import and sale of any wooden products which contain illegally logged timber.

21 August 2012

Recent comments from Helen Kelly of the CTU, of TV One’s Close-Up programme show an absolute ignorance by unions of how forestry has advanced worker’s attitudes and their safety record through communities standing firm behind their peers to get drugs out of the workplace.

17 August 2012

Norske Skog's Tasman mill in Kawerau has announced plans to reduce its output capacity by 150,000 tonnes, half of its current capacity.

Late last Friday, the Government released NZETS 2011 Facts and Figures, a 6-page report on the progress of the NZ Emission Trading Scheme. For forest owners it is not a good read – even if it tells them what they already suspected.

After starting his own project to study global warming, a once-prominent climate change skeptic, physicist Richard Muller says he now accepts the reality of anthropogenic climate change.

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.