As many as 1000 extra forestry workers will be needed every year for the next 20 years, regardless of whether the current wood boom continues, says a 2008 Berl report commissioned by an industry educational body.
Ian Boyd, chief executive of [ More ] [ Read More ]
The NZ Government should underwrite the growing of millions of forestry seedlings if it wants to meet its climate change planting goal. Current planting levels are far below the 30,000ha of new forest a year for 10 years needed to [ More ] [ Read More ]
This week we have a new platform for Friday Offcuts and a new web-host. It’s been an action packed week but we’re right back on track. The new software associated with the hosting of [ More ] [ Read More ]
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Forest Owners Association
The government needs to urgently adopt measures to prevent products from illegally logged forests being sold in New Zealand, says the Forest Owners Association.
In Australia the Labor Party has today promised if re-elected to impose such [ More ] [ Read More ]
Log exporters in New Zealand, the second largest log exporting country in the world, have benefited from the high costs of Russian logs; New Zealand exports increased by 43 percent during the first four months of 2010 as compared to [ More ] [ Read More ]
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