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Pushing the envelopes for Australia and New Zealand

02 March 2022
Many paper products have declined in use in recent years. Envelopes are an example. As the digital age presses into every corner of our lives, humble, physical products like envelopes have been diminished form their peaks recorded less than two decades ago. Source: IndustryEdge But fa
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New Scion board members appointed

02 March 2022
The Scion Board has appointed Brendon Green (Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāpuhi) as a director and Dr Melinda Webber (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) in a 12-month future director role. Source: Timberbiz “I am very pleased to welcome Brendon Green and Melinda Webber to these roles,” board cha
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Anthropologist is not an expert on native forestry

28 February 2022
The Farm Forestry Association says anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s recently publicised views, that planting native forests offer the best solution to the climate crisis, is misinformed and misleading. Source: Timberbiz Association President Graham West says the overwhelming evidenc
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Forest Owners puzzled by overseas investment reform

25 February 2022
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association is asking why the government needs to reintroduce more process around overseas investment for conversions from pasture to plantation forests. Source: Timberbiz New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Finance, David Parker, says the government
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The folly of the native forest carbon solution

23 February 2022
The Farm Forestry Association of New Zealand says anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s recently publicised views, that planting native forests offer the best solution to the climate crisis, is misinformed and misleading.  Source: Timberbiz Association President Graham West says the over
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NZ Forest Owners believe Morrison has the right end of the stick

23 February 2022
New Zealand’s Forest Owners Association is telling its government that Australia’s support of plantation forestry is in sharp contrast to the increasingly restrictive measures being promised in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, was in Tasman
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Monitoring planting success using AI and remote sensing

16 February 2022
Scion data scientists working with remote sensing experts Indufor have developed a new commercial service to monitor forest establishment and indigenous forest fragments. New Zealand will need to plant forests at unprecedented rates for decades to come if the country wishes to achieve
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Opinion: Marcus Musson – If a tree falls in the forest, should it be exported?

11 February 2022
Exporting primary products from New Zealand has long been celebrated and underpins our economy and way of life. We all hail increased dairy and meat exports, are more than happy our best fruit and crayfish go offshore but throw our toys out of the cot about log exports. Most elections
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Bupa plants forests in bid to make healthier people

09 February 2022
Health insurer Bupa has announced a new partnership between the Bupa Foundation and Trees That Count along with six local Community Grants in New Zealand. The Bupa Foundation, which has been operating in Australia since 2005, has invested more than $35m in more than 130 different heal
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NZ farmers should get incentives to plant more trees

07 February 2022
The Farm Forestry Association of NZ says Forestry Minister, Stuart Nash, should incentivise farmers to plant more trees to combat climate change. Source: Timberbiz “Why isn’t the government working with farmers to plant their own trees, rather than Stuart Nash seeming to have a priori
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