The New Zealand Institute of Forestry 2014 conference will be held in the Napier War Memorial Conference Centre from 6 to 9 July, 2014. Source: Timberbiz

Industry regulator WorkSafe New Zealand has charged a company and two individuals following the death of a forestry worker in Levin in 2013. Source: Radio New Zealand

Bay of Plenty forestry operations have faced 60 health and safety enforcement actions in the past 10 months according to WorkSafe New Zealand. Source: The Bay of Plenty Times

The Department of Agriculture is working to eradicate three exotic beetles that have been detected in timber pallets imported from China. Source: ABC News

US sawlog prices started falling in the 2Q/14 after a three-year upward trend, this due to lower US lumber prices and weaker log export markets in Asia according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Source: Timberbiz

Ten staff at Vanuatu's forestry department are receiving training to carry out a forest inventory on the country's largest island, Santo. Source: Radio New Zealand

Japan, the world’s fourth-largest buyer of timber products, needs to introduce laws and stricter oversight to stamp out imports of illegally logged wood, said the Environmental Investigation Agency, a lobbyist group. Source: Bloomberg

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show new home lending activity continuing to trend higher according to the Housing Industry Association. Source: Timberbiz

The Australian residential building industry is on a positive growth path thanks to improvements in home affordability driven by new technology that helps raise production efficiency. Source: Infolink