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Forico issues Australia’s first Natural Capital Report with net value at $3.4b

11 October 2021
Tasmania’s largest plantation forestry manager, Forico, has released a world-leading and Australian first Natural Capital Report, which puts the net value of its forest ecosystem at $3.4 billion and the value of sequestered carbon as high as $9.2 billion. Source: Timberbiz The report
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UK Wood Awards shortlist released

08 October 2021
Nineteen structures and 11 product designs have been nominated for the UK Wood Awards 2021. Established in 1971, the Wood Awards is the UK’s premier competition for excellence in architecture and product design in wood. Source: Timberbiz The competition is free to enter and aims to en
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Timber losses from Hurricane Ida significant

08 October 2021
On August 29, Hurricane Ida slammed into the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 storm and became the second-most damaging hurricane to strike the state on record (Hurricane Katrina holds the top spot). Though not nearly as severe as the storm surge from Katrina, Ida also inflicted wid
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False belief that paper and pulp drive deforestation

08 October 2021
Jue Wang, a Senior Environmental Specialist with UPM Specialty Papers, says that there is a false belief that using paper and pulp drive deforestation. The key element to commercial forestry is imitating how natural forests grow. Source: Timberbiz “We analyse the differences and try t
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KIPT timber will take up to five years to ship from the island

08 October 2021
Bushfire-damaged timber on Kangaroo Island suitable for housing will be sent to the mainland following a $15.1 million investment by the Federal Government. Source: Timberbiz The Federal Government allocated $15m from the Forestry Salvage Transport Measure to New South Wales and Victo
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Worksafe Awards MechLog for excellence

08 October 2021
Hot on the heels of its success at the recent Tasmanian Forest and Forest Product Network Awards and being a finalist in the WorkSafe Awards in 2018, MechLog has won another award at the 2021 WorkSafe Awards. Source: Timberbiz MechLog won the award for Excellence in Work Health and Sa
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New Timber Framing Collective a joint force of the timber industry

08 October 2021
A new body, the Timber Framing Collective, has been created with responsibility for the marketing of timber framing in Australia. It sees previously fierce competitors (local producers and importers, amongst others), join forces for the greater good of the industry to promote, establi
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IFA and AFG to rename itself at conference next week

08 October 2021
The professional association representing some 1000 forest scientists, researchers and professional forest land managers in Australia will soon be known by a new name. Source: Timberbiz The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers will launch a new identity at
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Vic Labor turns its back on unions and workers – Opposition

08 October 2021
The State Government in Victoria has been accused of abandoning forest workers and managers, and even its own commercial entity VicForests. The State Opposition says forest workers are being hung out to dry with the inclusion of a “strict liability” clause in the Forests Legislation (
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Opinion: Nick Steel – common sense optional if political ambitions are on the line

08 October 2021
The Tasmanian forest industry worked tirelessly to transform and fit within the Tasmanian Forest Agreement model — this created a void for professional activists who are now trying to reignite the fight with explosive and misleading language. Following years of investment and hard wor
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