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Forestry Australia shines a light on forest science and skills

21 March 2022
International Day of Forests As part of International Day of Forests, Forestry Australia is shining a light on the importance of forest science, and the skilled, experienced forest managers, growers and professionals who drive positive sustainable forest outcomes across the country. S
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Positive reflections to be had over forestry day dinner

21 March 2022
International Day of Forests Forest Industries Federation WA Chief Executive Officer Adele Farina said while the industry in her state had faced many challenges, the International Day of Forests was the ideal day for positive reflection. Source: Timberbiz Ms Farina said that this year
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Call for all sides of politics to focus on planting for the future

21 March 2022
International Day of Forests Australia’s forest industries are marking today’s International Day of Forests to call on all sides of politics to focus on getting more production trees planted nationally, while guaranteeing a secure future for our sustainable native forest industries, t
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European Forest Institute renames FLEGT and REDD

18 March 2022
The European Forest Institute (EFI) has renamed its FLEGT and REDD Unit, which is now called the International Partnerships Facility. The new name brings to light what has always been at the core of the Facility’s work: facilitating partnerships between producing and consuming countri
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Dogs with a Nose4Wood

18 March 2022
Finland is the first country in the world to train dogs to sniff out the Heterobasidion fungus in spruce and rust fungus in pine. The Nose4Wood project, run jointly by the Lapland University of Applied Sciences and Natural Resources Institute Finland, strives to find out whether dogs
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UN International Day of Forests

18 March 2022
  The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will mark International Day of Forests 2022 on 21 March with an online event that focuses on how leaders in the fashion textile and packaging sectors are shaping sustainable relationships between forests and circular pro
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Whole neighbourhood of wood

16 March 2022
Amsterdam has confirmed plans to build an entire neighbourhood out of wood, a renewable material that the region hopes will be key in reducing building emissions. Source: Bloomberg The new quarter, dubbed the first such neighbourhood in a Dutch city in several centuries, reflects a br
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Russian wood trade ban’s negative impact on the EU and shipping stops

16 March 2022
Most of the focus in the past weeks has been on European reliance on Russian fossil fuels and the way this affects the economies on the continent however, there are other markets where Russia is an important player, chief among them – the wood industry. Sources: The Mayor EU, Timberbi
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Russia is planning massive deforestation of Ukrainian forests

16 March 2022
According to the Ukrainian News Agency cutting down Ukrainian forests was stated in a letter from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu “On the possibility of cutting down on defense lands” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which was published by the Main Intelligence
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Timber Trade Federation UK advises members to cease trade with Russia

11 March 2022
The financial sanctions from multiple Governments to exclude many Russian banks from the international SWIFT payment system has effectively shut a lot of firms out of international trade as payments cannot be made or received; the UK Government has requested British ports to refuse en
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