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$1b initiative to purchase carbon credits to reduce deforestation

23 April 2021
In the context of the US President Biden’s “Leaders’ Summit”, the US, UK and Norway, together with Amazon, announced a 1 billion USD initiative to purchase carbon credits from countries that reduce deforestation and forest degradation. Source: Timberbiz As detailed in a statement by a
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Ligna 2021 off the table

23 April 2021
Ligna was rescheduled to run this year in September but this will not go ahead due to the continuing high level of COVID 19 infection worldwide, the slow national and international progress on vaccination and the continuing existence of travel restrictions. Instead, the event is now t
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Forestry Corp feeding koalas in need

23 April 2021
Forestry Corporation of NSW is halfway through the delivery of 25,000 koala food tree seedlings to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital for their annual koala food tree giveaway program. Source: Timberbiz The program will see koala food tree seedlings given to local and community groups want
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Duniam tells Sky News protestor putting child at risk was using it as a political pawn

23 April 2021
Assistant Minister for Forestry Jonathon Duniam has condemned a protestor who carried a child on her back while chaining herself to an operating header at a logging site in East Gippsland. Source: Timberbiz Reports from the site said the protestor – believed to a member of the Goonger
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Negotiations start with Mt Gambier mills for KIPT burnt timber

23 April 2021
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timber (KIPT) has completed a successful expo of its timber at a yard near Mt Gambier and is now in negotiations with several mills regarding buying logs from the KIPT pine softwood estate. Source: Timberbiz Logs of different size and varying burn classifica
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Vic Government should support VicForests against unwarranted attacks

23 April 2021
The Victorian Government must do more to support VicForests and the timber industry, according to Shadow Assistant Minister for Forestry Gary Blackwood. Mr Blackwood said there had been a clear line of attack on VicForests for many years from third-party interest groups which were usi
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ABC says VicForests risks Melbourne water supply but there’s a catch

23 April 2021
In its report on 20 April 2021, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) made allegations that VicForests has put Melbourne’s drinking water supply at risk by ‘systemic’ unlawful timber harvesting on steep slopes. VicForests says these allegations are false, misleading and miscon
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Opinion: Kersten Gentle – I am woman hear me roar

23 April 2021
In 1972, Helen Reddy released I Am Woman, which fast became an anthem for the women’s movement and after nearly 50 years since its release, the song was sung by a friend’s daughter in Woiwurrung, the language of the Wurrundjeri people at the Australian Open, giving even more meaning t
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Friday analysis: ABC fires another misguided shot at VicForests

23 April 2021
Again, the ABC has set its sights on firing shots at VicForests using any ammo it can lay hands to even if its NQR (not quite right). On 20 April the ABC published a long article based on information that was askew. It claimed that Melbourne’s drinking water was at risk from logging o
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US Lumber prices soar, demand is high but stumpage is static

21 April 2021
Lumber prices have soared to records. Demand for wood is skyrocketing. The shares of wood suppliers are surging. And yet, trees themselves are dirt cheap in places like Louisiana, where timber supplies are plentiful. Source: Bloomberg The so-called stumpage fee, or what lumber compani
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