High-profile conservationist Bob Brown was arrested in Tasmania yesterday for trespassing on an active logging site. Protestors, apparently from the Bob Brown Foundation, halted logging in Tasmania’s North Eastern Tiers. Three people locked themselves onto a log loader. Source:

The pandemic and worldwide lockdowns may have detrimentally affected the tropical timber market in 2020, but in 2021 the market is projected to rebound back and even above pre-pandemic levels. That was the sentiment from the TTF Tropical Timber Market Webinar that brought together spe

The US Department of Commerce announced affirmative final antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) circumvention rulings involving exports of hardwood plywood products from China, finding that hardwood and decorative plywood with veneers made of certain types of softwood (r

Sometimes it is the simple solutions that are the ingenious ones according to Håkan Johansson, landowner in Sala, Sweden and the man behind a new idea to help firefighting efforts using existing forestry machinery. Source: Timberbiz Recently, Skogforsk, the Swedish forestry research i

Farmers can now better understand the potential opportunities from carbon reducing activities using a farming tool developed by CSIRO. The LOOC-C (‘Look See’) app gives farmers detailed assessments of how their land and farming practices could be eligible for rebates under the Climate

Landslides can cause substantial environmental, social and economic impacts. Under future climate scenarios the frequency of landslide-triggering events is likely to increase. Land managers urgently require reliable high-resolution landslide susceptibility models to inform effective l

The Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020, which recognises the potential for Australia’s pulp and paper industry to be a major part of the solution to our domestic waste challenge, has been passed in Federal Parliament. Source: Timberbiz The Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 is

Forestry Corporation of NSW has finished trialling mechanical forest planting in the Nundle area, with the technology offering many advantages for the bushfire recovery planting program. Source: Timberbiz The trial was conducted using equipment manufactured by Risutec in Finland and i

AKD Softwoods, an integrated forestry and timber process company based in Colac, Victoria in Australia has selected Trimble Forestry’s Log Inventory & Management System (LIMS) to manage its extensive forestry operations across Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. Source: Tim