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In Australia the state of Victoria’s low grade native timber could soon be packed into shipping containers bound for China and other cut-price countries for processing under a plan to help ailing state timber company VicForests. VicForests has been left without a market for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of so-called “residual” timber following the[…]

TPP talks see Canada and Japan wrangle over log export protections – As Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations are heading to a finale, there is concern in Canada that its most protected industry, British Columbia timber is under increased pressure. Canada is also pushing for tariff reduction in other forestry markets, while Japan is targeting Canada[…]

The US Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will soon sign a five-year agreement designed to use former coal surface mined lands as sites for new chestnut tree plantings. The partnership says it has “the potential for propelling forward a reforestation renaissance on surface mines as[…]

Global Green Building Trends is a 50-page printed report (available as hard copy or PDF) that examines the results of research conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics regarding the global green building industry. The first ever global scale green building study, this report details the market trends and activities driving green building growth worldwide. The new[…]

Within the program of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2008, FSC invites interested parties to attend a truly unique and timely event – a two-day forest conference at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC). The Forest Conference is an opportunity to participate in the fifth General Assembly of members (GA), and a[…]

The world’s tallest hardwood tree has been discovered less than 5 km from Forestry Tasmania’s Tahune Airwalk tourism attraction. It is the only known standing hardwood tree in the world to be over 100 m tall. The trees are located in State forest, south of Hobart. Forestry Tasmania (FT) staff found the Eucalyptus regnans using[…]

According to the BBC’s Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, “the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study. It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion. The figure comes from adding the value of the[…]

The Russian Federal Government is trying to assist development of its forest industry by adding export taxes on logs, thereby limiting competition by foreign companies for the Russian timber, as reported by Wood Resource Quarterly. These taxes are currently 25% of the log value (€15/m3) for softwood logs and are scheduled to increase to a[…]

The international community should enable rainforest countries to halve deforestation by 2020 and make the global forest sector ‘carbon neutral’ by 2030. This is the recommendation of an independent report to the British Prime Minister published today. The Eliasch Review, Climate Change: Financing Global Forests, is an independent report commissioned by the Prime Minister and[…]

Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate change if problems like measuring preservation efforts can be overcome. It’s a bit of a minefield,” Michael Brune, the executive director of nonprofit group the Rainforest Action Network, told the Reuters Global[…]