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Asian bank rolls Heart of Borneo

Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing nearly US$4.5 million to help conserve one of the world’s most critical but threatened forest areas in the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Source: The Jakarta Post
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Ireland to sell off forest to pay debts

A dark cloud is looming over Ireland’s forests. Under the terms of its 67.5 billion euro international bailout, the government is being forced to sell off assets and has decided to sell harvesting rights to timber as a way of raising cash. Source: The Washington Post
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Mallee-to-jet fuel project

The aviation industry is looking for alternatives to fossil fuels. One possibility is biofuel produced from mallee biomass. Source: Timberbiz
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More natives so don’t pine for 500 trees

More than 500 pine trees, which formed an unusual urban forest in the corner of a Caringbah industrial site, were cut down this week. Source: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
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Forest Contractors AusTimber Expo

The Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) is looking positively towards the possibility of holding the next AusTimber Expo in 2016. Source: Timberbiz
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All side with timber in Victoria

Liberal, National and Labor parliamentarians, including all Gippsland MPs, united last week to back Victoria's timber industry. Source: The Gippsland Times
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SFM to manage Portland Treefarm

Forest Management company SFM Forest Products announced that it has completed contract negotiations to manage the Portland Treefarm Project in the Green Triangle. Source: Timberbiz
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No logging in sensitive Queensland habitat

Opening 1.2 million hectares of native Queensland forests for the timber industry would not lead to mass logging operations according to Timber Queensland chief executive Rod McInnes. Source: Sunshine Coast Daily
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Placing a dollar value on priceless trees

Next month, a federal court judge will try to put a value on something that’s somewhat priceless, trees stolen from the Olympic National Forest in the US. Source: Seattle Times
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This fireplace rules

In Oslo, Norway a TV program aired on the topic of firewood, it consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace. Sources: The Age, The New York Times
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