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People with an interest in the developing woodfuel industry are invited to register for an important international conference and workshop entitled ‘The Woodfuel Supply Chain – Sharing Experience’, in Warwick, England in September this year. It is being jointly organised by the Biomass Energy Centre and IEA Bioenergy to share experience and knowledge among practitioners[…]

Total forest, paper and packaging (FPP) deal values increased to $27.6 billion in 2007, up $1.9bn on 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Branching Out report. Deal values were well up in the first quarter of 2008 reaching $11.8bn, although the outlook for the rest of this year is more uncertain. North America’s share of deal activity[…]

A team of scientists may have solved the riddle of why plants that work with bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen gas into an essential biological nutrient (ammonia) tend to prevail in the world’s tropical regions rather than higher latitudes. In a paper published this week in Nature, the authors – including Dr Ying Ping Wang[…]

UPM estimates the result for its sawn timber business will be weaker than forecast in the second quarter of 2008. Also the full year profitability outlook for the sawn timber business within the Wood Products Division is expected to further weaken markedly. UPM will start employee negotiations for the possible closure of Leivonmäki sawmill in[…]

Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and the Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) announced that the major timber company has more than doubled the amount of certified rainforest it operates in the Congo Basin, creating the largest ever tract of contiguous certified tropical forest in the world, a total of 750,000 ha. To meet the standards for[…]

Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008 has been released by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The 2008 report was prepared by the Montreal Process Implementation Group for Australia (MIG) on behalf of the Australian, state and territory governments. It can be viewed on adl.brs.gov.au. A3P CEO Neil Fisher said, “The report is[…]

The world’s oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, according to an online National Geographic report. The visible portion of the (4 m ‘Christmas tree’ isn’t ancient, but its root system has been growing for 9,550 years, according to[…]

A unique worldwide tree planting initiative, aimed at empowering citizens to corporations and people up to presidents to embrace the climate change challenge, has now set its sights on planting 7 billion trees. It follows the news that the Billion Tree Campaign has in just 18 months catalyzed the planting of 2 billion trees, double[…]

CONSOL Energy’s, the largest producer of high-Btu bituminous coal in the USA, Fola Coal Co Surface Mine 6 in Bickmore, West Virginia, has been presented with the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative’s Excellence in Forestry Award for 2007. The award, presented by the US Office of Surface Mining (OSM), on behalf of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation[…]

Australia’s CSIRO is providing technical expertise in support of what US science magazine, Discover, has described as one of ‘the six most important experiments in the world’ – the Planted Forests Project on the island of Borneo. “This Malaysian project is visionary,” says the leader of the CSIRO team, David Boden. “Around the world we’ve[…]