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Pango Forestry on forest management

Pango Forestry’s founder, Zane Cleaver says that forest management is an investment in the future. Source: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ Of late, there has been an increasing need for services related to Pango forestry management as more and more owners want to maximize wealth through a forest
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Timber alight on container ship

Firefighters have gone into the hatch of a container ship the Kokopo Chief, moored at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand where a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning. Source: Stuff NZ The Kokopo Chief, moored at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand was loaded with timbe
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App to wage war on kauri dieback

There is a game-changing tool on the way in the war against kauri dieback, the disease which is having a devastating effect on New Zealand’s native forests. Sources: Timberbiz, Scoop NZ Thanks to the 2016 WWF-New Zealand Conservation Innovation Awards, sustainable land management grou
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NZ structural log prices highest in two decades

New Zealand structural log prices edged up to the highest level in more than two decades as mills compete with the export market to secure supply for the local construction market. Source: The New Zealand Herald The price for structural S1 logs lifted to NZ$128 a tonne this month, fro
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Lower environmental standards for forestry

Environment Southland, New Zealand has expressed concern that forestry operators will be allowed to operate at lower environmental standards than others, under new government rules. Source: The Southland Times A report to an Environment Southland meeting says a national environmental
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Dr Payn takes Chair of Sustainable Forestry NZ

Scion’s Dr Tim Payn, is the first Chair of Sustainable Forestry for the Bay of Plenty and South Waikato regions. Source: Timberbiz This new role is the product of a forestry science and education partnership in the central North Island between Scion and Toi Ohomai Institute of Technol
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NZ goes to polls, who stands behind forestry

New Zealand elections always bring together some novel alliances. The 2017 Election to be held on 23 September is no exception on this front for WPMA. Source: Timberbiz For this general election the Wood Processors and Manufacturers Association of New Zealand (WPMA) has worked up an a
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NZ Institute of Forestry Foundation awards forestry students

New Zealand forestry student Pauline Edge has won the Mary Sutherland scholarship at the New Zealand Institute of Forestry Foundation awards. Source: The New Zealand Herald The awards were held at the New Zealand Institute of Forestry conference dinner in Rotorua recently. The scholar
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Wood fibre supply an issue for new NZ processing plant

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, which has encouraged a Chinese company to invest in an NZ$180 million wood processing plant in the Central North Island to boost regional development, is now looking into whether there is enough wood fibre available to supply the plant following conce
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NZ Labour backs commercial forestry

Labour has committed to planting commercial forests on Crown land, with the wood to be processed in New Zealand for use in building. Source: News Hub NZ Labour says too many raw logs are currently being exported and New Zealand is missing out on value-added processing and manufacturin
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