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Posts Tagged ‘World Forestry News’

Mar
18

Interest in Wood on the Rise

NZ Wood programme manager, Geoff Henley, reports on his recent meeting in London regarding international wood promotion.

The level of interest in the use of wood has shown a sharp increase worldwide is the conclusion of a group of wood promoters [ More ] [ Read More ]

Feb
11

Time for New Zealand to Fight Back –
Where are the “checks” on Environmental Lobbyists?

Media Release:

False accusations from Conservation International claiming New Zealand is second on the list of deforestation ‘hotspots’ have damaged New Zealand’s green reputation.

Although the accusation doesn’t match the New Zealand forest industries long-standing proactive approach towards sustainable forestry, New Zealanders [ More ] [ Read More ]

Jan
28

Friday Offcuts – 28 January 2011

Our lead story this week covers the announcement – TODAY – of one of the largest forestry estate transactions in Australia. One of Canada’s largest institutional investment managers along with the Australia New Zealand Forest Fund has just purchased the [ More ] [ Read More ]

Dec
10

NZ at heart of Cancun row over tree carbon

New Zealand is at the centre of a row at the Cancun climate change talks over proposals to adjust the way in which carbon is accounted for in trees. Environmental groups say that the Land Use Land Use Change (LULUCF) [ More ] [ Read More ]

Oct
29

FOEX and WRI to partner together

FOEX Indexes Ltd (FOEX) and Wood Resources International LLC (WRI) to partner in the launching of Global Wood Chip Price Indices.

More than 80 million tons of wood chips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are traded annually in the [ More ] [ Read More ]