Landcare Research’s Gisborne office will close this week after 42 years playing a crucial role in studying the region’s world-famous erosion issues. Source: The Gisborne Herald The office, established in 1975 by the then New Zealand Forest Service, was never meant to be permanent, tho

Fire and termites will be no threat to a nine-storey all-timber office block to be built in inner Brisbane, according to the construction team. Source: ABC News Taller wooden buildings exist in Australia and around the world but 25 King, now underway at the $2.9-billion RNA Showground

Hundreds of families in a small north-east Victorian town have been without pay for almost 10 weeks, after the area’s biggest employer locked out its entire workforce. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Nestled in the middle of the state’s picturesque alpine ranges, Myrtlef

What better way to showcase the many qualities of engineered timber, including fire compliance in contemporary building design than a new Fire Station? Source: Timberbiz This was the view of Hyne Timber when a potential opportunity arose to give the Maryborough Fire and Emergency Serv

Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers has opened an office in Kingscote and appointed two of its directors to executive positions as it works towards approval for its Smith Bay wharf and mobilisation of the forestry industry. Source: Timberbiz The office, at 70 Dauncey Street, provides a

The Tasmanian Government’s horror week in the upper house has continued, with MLCs swinging the axe on its contentious forestry legislation. Source: ABC News The bill would have allowed logging in 356,000 hectares of forests two years earlier than a moratorium would have allowed

A dead koala has been found between fallen trees in a logged forest that the Andrews government could have protected – had it not ignored advice from its own scientific committee. Source: The Age The Sunday Age has obtained graphic images of the lifeless animal slumped over branches i

An Australian engineer is hoping to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe. Source: ABC News Deforestation and forest degradation make up 17% of the world’s carbon emissions — more than the entire world’s transportation sect

Troubled Quintis is heavily discounting its stocks of sandalwood oil and timber as the company tries to stave off collapse. Source: Australian Financial Review The Perth-based sandalwood grower will fail unless it can successfully negotiate a recapitalisation before it runs out of cas