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The Center for Biological Diversity says one-third of America’s national forests are protected from road-building and other industrial development by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule — but now the administration is working state-by-state to open these treasured places to logging, mining and other development. “As it gets ready to head out the door, the Bush[…]

This paper gives an overview of the concerns, perceptions and reactions surrounding ‘Conversions’. Given the universal appreciation of the importance of forests, especially tropical forests, and concern at their potential demise the solution appears to be to simple – either leave them alone or replace the trees that we use. So why has the debate[…]

Ponsse’s financial statement for last year showed: – Order intake rose by 49% to €361.2 million. – Consolidated turnover rose by 30% to €310.1 million. – Consolidated operating profit rose by 25% to €37.1 million. Arto Tiitinen, President and CEO: “We are especially pleased by the fact that the order intake rose by 49% from[…]

The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) Council has launched a global ‘Governance Review’, directed by an international panel of experts, the majority of whom are independent of PEFC, and with support from the Z/Yen Group. The panel, chaired by Lord Jamie Lindsay of United Kingdom Accreditation Service, includes Björn Andrén of Holmen[…]

Pöyry has divested its French subsidiary Pöyry Energy (Strasbourg) and sold its 100% ownership in the company for to €600,000 because the subsidiary’s profile and product portfolio is not in line with the current strategy of Pöyry’s Energy business group. The company’s annual net sales are about €2.5 million and it is debt-free. As the[…]

Forestry Tasmania’s operating profit had been cut from A$25 million to just over $500,000 in the past four years, the company revealed at Government Business Enterprise hearings last week. Forestry chief executive Bob Gordon blamed the loss on tough trading conditions with a volatile market, a substantial drop in wood sales, and rising contractor costs,[…]

Timber products maker Gunns has launched a bid to buy the remaining 39 per cent of Auspine it does not already own, according to an AAP report online. The offer is for A$7 per share, representing a 13.8% premium to its previous cash bid for the firm. Auspine managing director Adrian de Bruin, who controls[…]

The provincial government is capable of stabilising the forest industry in New Brunswick, Canada, but is dragging its heels, New Brunswick Forest Products Association head Mark Arsenault has been quoted as saying. The comments related to the time taken for the Government to issue its biomass and long-term wood supply policies, the Telegraph-Journal said. “I[…]

The National Association of Forest Industries in Australia has welcomed incoming Prime Mininster Kevin Rudd’s move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Rudd reiterated his intentions at the Bali Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which started this week. NAFI CEO Catherine Murphy said forestry was the only carbon positive industry[…]

Former Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said environmental standards at the Gunns’ Tasmanian pulp mill would be the world’s best, but some specialist observers of the cutting-edge Swedish pulp and paper industry doubt his claim, according to a report in Australian newspaper The Age. Two years ago, three Swedish pulp and paper mills found small[…]