A University of the Sunshine Coast researcher is investigating how forest waste can help fight climate change and boost the incomes of farmers and landowners. Source: Noosa Today USC Sunshine Coast PhD candidate Trinh Huynh has won a 2021 Student Award from the Crawford Fund to pursue

DesignBUILD will open its doors again to the building and construction industry, returning to the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on 10 – 12 May 2022. The show will have a renewed focus on showcasing quality products, sustainable solutions and smart tech from some o

Pro-active monitoring and on-ground expertise from Sustainable Timber Tasmania has confirmed that migratory swift parrots have returned to search for nest sites in forests on the east coast of Tasmania. Source: Timberbiz General Manager Conservation and Land Management Suzette Weeding

The Forest Owners Association of New Zealand says the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has laid down a blueprint for the New Zealand forest and wood industry, with the release of ‘Forest Products in the Global Economy’, as part of the COP26 meeting and events in Glasgow. Source: T

Australia’s potential as a bioenergy powerhouse has been unveiled in the Australian Renewable Agency’s Bioenergy Roadmap, which recognises the potential of industrial heat in Australia’s future renewable energy mix. Source: Timberbiz Australian Forest Products Association CEO Ross Ham

Renewable energy and renewable timber may soon be produced side-by-side, with the passage last week of legislation to enable clean energy developments such as wind energy to be established in New South Wales State forest pine plantations. Source: Timberbiz NSW Parliament passed amendm

The Victorian timber industry is facing a fresh crisis with VicForests’ contractors and timber workers stood down last week because of more recent injunctions placed on the harvesting of coupes. Source: Timberbiz The timber workers union held urgent talks with forest contractors

Though the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic largely took citizens and governments worldwide by surprise, many scientists had been predicting such an event for a long time. Studies linking the health of humans and forest go back more than 40 years, and evidence has increasingly pointe