New Zealand’s Tauranga City Council’s new office building is set to be the largest mass timber office building in New Zealand and will target a net zero carbon footprint for the building’s construction process. Source: Timberbiz Property development and investment company Willis Bond

As a salute to Hyne Timber’s 140 years, long standing timber industry stakeholders came together for a grand luncheon at the Brisbane Tattersalls Club. Source: Timberbiz Representing Hyne Timber and the Hyne family, Optimisation Lead Kelly Hyne was invited to give a short speech inclu

CarbonCrop has launched Native CarbonCrop Units (CCUs), giving New Zealand landholders with native reforestation access to a new revenue stream outside of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and offering buyers of voluntary offsets a transparent, traceable and biodiversity-focused sou

Forestry Corporation of NSW has started its record 2022 replanting program, with 3.2 million seedlings set to be replanted into 2,950 hectares of Bombala pine plantations previously harvested or affected by bushfires. Source: Timberbiz Forestry Corporation’s Silviculture & Fire Co

Geelong MP Gayle Tierney is Victoria’s new agriculture minister, replacing Mary-Anne Thomas who served 18 months in the role. Source: Timberbiz Ms Thomas has been appointed Health Minister and Ambulance Services Minister. Lily D’Ambrosio remains the Minister for Energy, Minister for E

The NSW Government’s $28 million funding injection to grow farm forestry will help NSW farmers to become foresters and ease the state’s timber shortages amid record demand, according to Australian Forest Products Association NSW. Source: Timberbiz AFPA NSW Chief Executive Officer Vict

Funded by the European Commission to promote large-scale forest restoration in support of the EU Green Deal, the new Horizon 2020 project SUPERB, coordinated by EFI, has 36 consortium members, 90 associated partners, €20m in EU funds and €90m in in-kind contributions. Source: Timberbi

Global sawlog price changes were mixed in 1Q/22 with quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) increases in North America and Eastern Europe, while prices declined in Central and Northern Europe. Source: Forest2Market The European Sawlog Price Index (ESPI) increased slightly in the 1Q/22 and reached