21 August 2012
The Australian Federal Government has begun a crackdown on illegal logging with its legislation being carried by the lower house of parliament. The bill bans the import and sale of any wooden products which contain illegally logged timber.
Forestry News
Union drug-testing comments show ignorance of forestry
21 August 2012
Recent comments from Helen Kelly of the CTU, of TV One’s Close-Up programme show an absolute ignorance by unions of how forestry has advanced worker’s attitudes and their safety record through communities standing firm behind their peers to get drugs out of the workplace.
Kawerau to halve its newsprint output
17 August 2012
Norske Skog's Tasman mill in Kawerau has announced plans to reduce its output capacity by 150,000 tonnes, half of its current capacity.
More confirmation that the NZETS isn't working
Late last Friday, the Government released NZETS 2011 Facts and Figures, a 6-page report on the progress of the NZ Emission Trading Scheme. For forest owners it is not a good read – even if it tells them what they already suspected.
Prominent climate sceptic now accepts reality
After starting his own project to study global warming, a once-prominent climate change skeptic, physicist Richard Muller says he now accepts the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Taiga fires convert Siberian forests to grassland
Forest fires — spurred by hot and dry weather — have destroyed large areas of forest in Siberia. But the Russian Government and Russia's Greenpeace are disputing the scale of destruction.