1 Feb 2010
Mountain pine beetle has killed more than one billion trees in British Columbia (photo) and once thriving forestry cities may well become ghost towns. Korea has banned log imports from Chile because of the perceived threat of a newly discovered Phytopthora that causes disease in radiata pine.
05 May 2010
The men who died earlier on Monday on a log ship moored at Marsden Point, Northland, almost certainly died from a lack of oxygen.
10 May 2010
Tasmania's forestry heavyweights have held an emergency meeting to discuss what they describe as a timber industry crisis.
13 May 2010
British Columbia's forest industry is enjoying a welcome rally but may have to wait until at least next year to blaze into full recovery, forestry experts say. The higher prices fetched by lumber, oriented strand board and pulp at the end of 2009 have spilled into early 2010, leading to better results in the quarter just ended, industry watchers told a forestry conference in Vancouver on Tuesday.
17 May 2010
Today 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), and nine leading environmental organizations, unveiled an unprecedented agreement – the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement – that applies to 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC members. The Agreement, when fully implemented, will conserve significant areas of Canada’s vast Boreal Forest, protect threatened woodland caribou and provide a competitive market edge for participating companies.
19 May 2010
ACT's contradictory position on carbon credits for forestry undermines the credibility of its policy on the emissions trading scheme, Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith says.
21 May 2010
A pilot initiative by the Department of Conservation (DOC) will see unnecessary red tape around resource management consenting processes cut. The pilot scheme that started in November last year between DOC and Ernslaw One Limited has seen the review of ten protection management areas (PMA) that had obvious boundary inaccuracies as mapped in the Council’s Gisborne District Plan.
24 May 2010
As part the emission trading scheme (ETS) the Government would over five years pay $1.6 billion to foresters to plant trees. It would get $900 million of this from taxpayers and $600 m from other ETS revenue gathering, prime minister John Key told TVNZ's Breakfast programme today.
27 May 2010
New Primary Growth Partnership funding to improve forest harvesting technology has a huge potential to benefit the New Zealand economy and make logging safer for workers on the ground.
