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Tas Tree Alliance marketing campaign a finalist in marketing awards

08 November 2021
Tasmania’s Tree Alliance marketing campaign, launched in October 2020, has been named a finalist in two categories of the Australian Institute of Marketing Awards for Marketing Excellence. Source: Timberbiz The categories include: Creativity in Brand, Product or Service Marketing; and
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Clarification in Code of Practice for Timber Production Victoria

08 November 2021
VicForests has welcomed the clarification in the Code of Practice for Timber Production 2014 regarding harvesting on steep slopes. Source: Timberbiz The Code mandatory action for operations on steep slopes has not changed in this amendment and remains: Timber harvesting operations mus
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Sustainable forest management is the answer

05 November 2021
WA’S forest industries have welcomed a commitment by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, COP26. Forest Industries Federation WA (FIFWA) Chief Executive Officer Adele Farina said the Deforestation Pledge was further reinforcement
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Strong demand remains for housing despite end of HomeBuilder

05 November 2021
Detached building approvals continue to suggest there is still strong demand for housing six months after the HomeBuilder stimulus ended in March. Source: Timberbiz “Detached building approvals in the three months to September 2021 remain up by 15.5% on the same quarter in 2020 and 32
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Misleading forestry claims damage real climate action

05 November 2021
Claims by the Bob Brown Foundation that a commitment from world leaders on halting deforestation by 2030 promises an end to native forest logging globally and in Australia by 2030 have been labelled both misleading and damaging to real climate action. Source: Timberbiz The Prime Minis
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AFCA call for board members

03 November 2021
Nominations are open to join the board of the Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA), the association is keen to increase participation on the board with members from Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, especially those with experience in native forestry. Source
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Forestry commits to COP26 but state governments need to rethink native wood

03 November 2021
Australia’s forest industries have welcomed and expressed their support for a commitment by world leaders at the Glasgow Climate Change Summit to halt deforestation by 2030. Australian Forest Products Association CEO Ross Hampton said forests were the world’s lungs and needed to be su
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Treemapper app helps planning, mapping and managing trees

01 November 2021
Private Forests Tasmania and the Forest Practices Authority have developed Treemapper, a farm and forestry property planning app. Source: Timberbiz The Property Planning Mapper mobile application will deliver a handful of mapping and calculator tools to provide immediate farm-planning
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Australian architects want every new home and extension sustainable

01 November 2021
Australian Architect members of the global organisation Architects Declare are having their say on the National Construction Code updates to make sure every new home – without costing more – will raise the required standards of sustainability. Source: Timberbiz Architects Declare, in
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Decline in Tassie plantations a focus for Private Forests Tasmania

01 November 2021
The scale of the decline in Tasmanian plantation area while timber supply shortages persist, remains an important focus for the ongoing work program of Tasmania’s private forests group. Source: Timberbiz Private Forests Tasmania chairman Evan Rolley, in PFT’s annual report tabled in S
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