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Unprecedented partnership to produce 125,000 tonnes of timber

14 August 2018
Aboriginal people on Cape York are branching out into the timber business as Rio Tinto expands its bauxite operations in far north Queensland. Source: The Australian In an unprecedented partnership with the international miner, the traditional Wik and Wik Way people have set up a comp
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End of an era for sandalwood

14 August 2018
Senior timber assessor Steve Davis and technical officer Mike Cully have been working hard in Kununurra to harvest Indian sandalwood from old Forest Products Commission (FPC) research plots. Source: Timberbiz Senior forester (Ecology) Jon Brand said that the agreement between the FPC
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Drone ensures koala safety

14 August 2018
The koala in Victoria’s Strzelecki Ranges has a new ally to guard its safety – the all-seeing drone that detects any animal in its sights.  It’s the preferred technology that family company Hazelwood Forestry, based in the Latrobe Valley, is now using for its business of wild life man
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OFO maps its future growth in Australia and NZ

14 August 2018
OneFortyOne Plantations(OFO) is consolidating its position as a new vertically integrated company, including potentially using bioenergy as it maps future growth in Australia and New Zealand. Source: Philip Hopkins for Timberbiz The company’s executive general manger – forestry,
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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

09 August 2018
Every month, IndustryEdge publishes Wood Market Edge, Australia’s only forestry and wood products market and trade analysis, and supplies its customers with hundreds of unique data products, advisory and consulting services. 618,999 bdmt – IndustryEdge’s projection of woodchip exports
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New insights on koalas in hinterland forests

09 August 2018
A major new study that records forest sounds has found evidence for up to 10 times the rate of koala occupancy in NSW’s north-east forests than previously estimated. Source: Timberbiz The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) project, which focused on the iconic marsupial’s respo
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Letter to the editor on pine residue in WA

09 August 2018
To the Editor I read with interest your story (Pine residue up for grabs in WA) of the day in Daily Timber News 7 (August 2018). I would not hold my breath waiting for FPC to make a decision and award contracts to respondents, despite the assertion that announcements are imminent. The
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Aussie axeman sets new world record… and robbed, too!

07 August 2018
A gruelling competition series throughout the USA and Canada has ended with Australian champion axeman Laurence O’Toole finishing with a new world record … and being robbed, too! Source: Timberbiz But, he’s back Down Under this week and getting ready to tackle the Ro
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National Forestry Planting Day

07 August 2018
August 1 was National Forestry Planting Day, an industry-led initiative to celebrate the environmental contribution of Australia’s renewable forest sector where over 70 million trees are planted each year. Source: Timberbiz Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Senato
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Keeping up to date with illegal logging laws

07 August 2018
Over the coming months, the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources will be undertaking a range of outreach and education activities to promote improved awareness and understanding of Australia’s illegal logging laws. Source: Timberbiz During the second half of 2018, the d
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