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Online way to report unsafe driving of forestry and logging trucks

15 December 2008
A new online tool will improve road safety by making it easier to identify and report unsafe driving of forestry vehicles and logging trucks.
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Region’s farm forestry on show

15 December 2008
Registrations are rolling in for the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association national conference to be held in Gisborne in April next year, writes Debbie Gregory in the Gisborne Herald.
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UK invests £12 million in biomass heating

15 December 2008
The UK Government has announced £12 million in funding for industry, businesses and community groups investing in biomass-fuelled heating and combined heat and power systems.
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Ghana’s ‘miracle’: Logging underwater forests for exotic timber

10 December 2008
Ghana, which is running short of forests to chop down, is about to turn to the dead trees underneath its Lake Volta as a new source of exotic timber, one of its top export earners.
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Contracts cancelled over substandard timber

10 December 2008
Building materials supplier Placemakers has cut off some of its contractors after finding substandard timber had been used for building homes.
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More job losses expected in battered manufacturing sector

10 December 2008
Canada’s battered manufacturing sector shed 38,000 jobs last month and has lost nearly 400,000 factory jobs since an employment peak in 2002 - a trend expected to intensify over the next year as the North American economic slump deepens and demand for everything from auto parts to new
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This feller’s in real trouble

10 December 2008
KOLKATA: Five months after being charged with felling trees in connivance with hoarding agencies, forest guard Gouranga Chakraborty is about to be penalised.
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Selecting survival species

10 December 2008
Scientists at a Mount Allison University lab are predicting which tree species will be threatened by climate change in the next century.
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Solidwood exports face worsening prospects

08 December 2008
Gazeta Marcantil/Celulose Online has reported that the solidwood industry in Brazil is being crippled by the impact of the United States housing crisis since early this year.
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Legality certification a first for PNG business

08 December 2008
James Lau, managing director of Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group, said that Saban Enterprises Limited, an RH subsidiary company, was the first forestry company in Papua New Guinea to receive certification that the legality of the timber it uses has been independently verified.
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