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Latest timber industry news, updated on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Forestry company $3m bill wiped by NZ High Court pic

A forestry company has had a NZ$2.89 million debt set aside by the High Court after failing to harvest on deadline for a contract written on bad advice from the Marlborough District Council in New Zealand. Sources: Stuff NZ, Timberbiz Zindia Limited signed the contract in 2016, to har
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Timber Queensland celebrates its female scientists

  As part of International Day of Women and Girls in Science tomorrow Timber Queensland will be celebrating the work of its female scientists. Source: Timberbiz Clarissa Brandt, Strategic Relations & Communications Manager, Timber Queensland said the forest sector provided wo
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Steve Jobs’ wooden Apple to sell for £1.1m

An original Apple computer with a wooden case is up for sale for £1.1 million on eBay, some 2250 times more than its original price tag in 1976. The ‘Apple-1’ was the first product to be developed under the Apple name by company co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and
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US State Foresters 10-year Forest Action Plan on YouTube

State foresters in the US are celebrating the completion of the 10-year Forest Action Plan revisions with videos depicting their agencies at work in support of forest health, resiliency, and productivity. Source: Timberbiz The National Association of State Foresters has announced the
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EU foresters concerned with Green Deal

On 3 February, the main stakeholder organisations representing the forestry sector met with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, to discuss the sector’s growing concerns on the way in which the implementation of the EU Green Deal currently addresses f
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Australian log exports fall to five year low

IndustryEdge has stated that Australia’s log exports fell to a five-year low in December 2020, down 47% on the prior December and totalling just 196,519 m3. The dramatic fall saw exports 34% lower than for November, which was itself 32% lower than exports in October. Source: IndustryE
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Fire in Manawatu Tangimoana forest burns through 53ha

Fire and emergency services in New Zealand have been fighting a fire in the Manawatu Tangimoana forest. They were called to the fire around 6pm on 4 February and by the morning of 5 February it had burnt through 40ha of forestry. Source: Timberbiz Six helicopters and heavy machinery w
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100 days of inactivity after Bushfire Royal Commission findings

One hundred days after the Bushfire Royal Commission handed down its findings, bushfire survivors are still waiting on the federal government to take clear, decisive action on all recommendations. Source: Timberbiz “It has been 100 days since our members travelled to Canberra to hear
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Ross Hampton takes his chair on the FOA Advisory Council

Incoming Chair of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s forestry advisory council, Ross Hampton, says the world’s renewable timber and forestry sectors must be turbo-charged if we are to have any chance of achieving the global goal of ‘Carbon Neutral by 2050’. Source: Timberbiz M
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