The Wauchope Show Society couldn’t be happier to see donated timber arrive in time for redevelopment of the showground’s grandstands. Thanks to Forestry Corporation of NSW’s Community Timber Partnerships program, local north coast hardwood timber will be used to replace seating across

Hectares of mature gorse in the Rakaia Gorge in New Zealand are scheduled to go up in flames in the next two weeks to support research into rural fire science. Fire and Emergency New Zealand and Scion fire scientists working with the Department of Conservation have earmarked around 80

The NSW Forestry Corporation is standing by its efforts to make sure koala populations are protected within its timber plantations. Source: Timberbiz The senior planning manager of the state-owned body, Dean Kearney, appeared at a NSW upper house inquiry into koala populations and hab

Gippsland MP Darren Chester hopes the Royal Commission into Australia’s Black Summer bushfires will give a voice to those who know the bush well. Mr Chester said there were many people throughout Gippsland with extensive knowledge and experience of managing the land to share. Source:

Victorian taxpayers will pay $200 million to the privately-owned Australian Paper in Maryvale to try to shield workers from a state ban on native forest logging, according to the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne. Source: Herald Sun The secret deal between the Andrews Government and A

The Nova Scotia government is hoping to tempt the province’s forestry companies to invest in their operations with a new Can$10-million, two-year forestry innovation rebate program. The program applies to capital projects between Can$1 million and Can$15 million and allows companies t

US Republican Bruce Westerman introduced the Trillion Trees Act, legislation that would plant one trillion trees globally by 2050 and incentivize the use of wood products as carbon sequestration devices. Source: Timberbiz “Trees are the ultimate carbon sequestration device,” Mr Wester

The revised and improved license agreement for the FSC certification scheme will initially be implemented with a pilot phase, starting early in the 2Q 2020 in Brazil, China, Germany, Russia and the United States before being extended to other countries later in the year. Source: Timbe

New Forests has announced that investment funds managed by the firm will be used to purchase the hardwood plantation assets of Bunbury Fibre Plantations from Mitsui Bussan Woodchip Oceania (MWO). Source: Timberbiz The Bunbury Fibre Plantations asset includes around 12,000 hectares of