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Artist awarded the smallest wooden spoon

18 August 2023
Micro artist Shashikant Prajapati has scooped up a record for creating the world’s smallest wooden spoon. The 25-year-old from Bihar, India, carved a spoon measuring just 1.6mm breaking the previous record of 2mm set by Navratan Prajapati Murtikar (India) in 2022. Source: Timberbiz To
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Accurately mapping mangroves with AI and drones

18 August 2023
Using drone imagery and artificial intelligence (AI), scientists from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen have developed a method that delineates each tree in a forest, along with an estimate of its height and diameter. Source: PhysOrg This capability can h
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UK government will continue its support of biomass energy

18 August 2023
The UK government said it will continue to support biomass energy, though it failed to provide specific details on how it would subsidize the country’s biggest utility using the fuel. Source: Bloomberg In a long-awaited biomass strategy, Graham Stuart, UK minister for energy security
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Forestry amendment bill tabled in Tas parliament

18 August 2023
Tasmania’s Resources Minister Felix Ellis said he was pleased to table the Forestry (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill 2023. Source: Timberbiz “If passed, amendments proposed in the Bill will see more money put back into the pockets of Tasmanian businesses by removing the requirement for
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First GLT beam emerges from Timberlink at Tarpeena

18 August 2023
Timberlink has manufactured its first GLT beam at its Tarpeena plant in South Australia. Ian Tyson, CEO of Timberlink, announced the milestone during a tour of the facility by South Australian Parliamentary Select Committee for the South Australian Forest Products Association’s Seed t
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Farm forestry grants for Gippsland

18 August 2023
VicForests has awarded about $850,000 in grants through its Gippsland Farm Forestry Program to 16 landholders across Gippsland to assist in planning, establishing and managing a total of 274.3 hectares of new farm forests. Source: Timberbiz The Gippsland-based program seeks to support
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Joel Fitzgibbon appointed chair of AFPA as Diana Gibbs steps down

18 August 2023
Diana Gibbs has stepped down as chair of the Australian Forest Products Association and will remain as a director. She has been replaced by Joel Fitzgibbon who has resigned as interim CEO. Source: Timberbiz Natasa Sikman has accepted the position of acting CEO, as the board carries ou
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Labor opts for commonsense not green dissent at national conference

18 August 2023
The Labor Party has rejected an internal push to ban native forest logging, instead committing at its 49th National Conference to rewrite the three decades old national forest policy statement this term. The forest policy statement will be revamped to “ensure the application of nation
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Opinion: Joel Fitzgibbon – a rational approach to forestry would be a good start

18 August 2023
There is no rational reason to shut down native forestry and a big bonus in carbon sequestration. Global demand for wood products is forecast to dramatically outpace supply as urban populations grow and renewable wood and innovative wood products play a greater role in our decarbonisa
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Friday analysis: Forestry can breathe easier after Labor decision but needs to watch its back

18 August 2023
Federal Labor’s decision to reject a ban on native forest logging will give the industry good reason to breathe a little easier. The Labor Environment Action Network attempted to force the Federal Government to end native forest harvesting and replace the industry with a nationa
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