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

Responsible Wood has been included in the Green Building Council Australia’s (GBCA) Green Star Rating. The new framework provides guidance for all building materials used in Green Star projects and will apply to all new Green Star Rating Tools published by the Green Building Council o

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

The Nationals Gippsland team says ‘lives and livelihoods’ will be destroyed if the Andrews Government’s plan to shut down the native hardwood timber industry by 2030 proceeds. Source: Timberbiz In a strong show of support for Victoria’s sustainable native timber industry, The National

The timber workers’ union has attacked the Federal Government’s $86 million investment in forestry as hugely disappointing. The funding plan would see the Government working with foresters across the eastern states to plant up to 150 million trees in the next five years. Source: Timbe

The announcement of $86 million in seed capital to grow new commercial plantation estate is another progressive step forward in realising the Green Triangle Forest Industries Hub’s Trees into Farming plan, according to committee chair Cam MacDonald. Source: Timberbiz And, according to

The volume of detached home building and renovations activity has been exceptionally strong for the past 18 months, initially driven by HomeBuilder. However, according to HIA Chief Economist Tim Reardon this is now being supported by strong employment conditions, low interest rates an

NEWLY-appointed sustainability manager at Responsible Wood Matt de Jongh is excited about returning to the ‘grass roots of forestry’ he knows so well. Responsible Wood CEO Simon Dorries said Mr de Jongh was well suited to the position “with a strong background in forest management, a