India: Punjab forest dept to distribute one million seedings Punjab forest dept to distribute 10 lakh seedings
Wednesday, 24 June 2009: CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Forest Department has decided to give a big push to agro-forestry in the State and would distribute 10 lac seedlings of fast-growing and economically important tree species such as Eucalyptus, Shisham and Drek.
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New Zealand Eucalyptus for the U.S.28 June 2009: A Quarter Million NZ Raised GE Eucalyptus Trees Intended for Planting in U.S; Soil &Health Association of New Zealand, (Est. 1941), Publishers of ORGANIC NZ
More than a quarter of a million genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees exported from New Zealand stand to shred New Zealand’s clean, green brand and risk large-scale health and environmental damage, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand.
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Indonesian Government: Production forests will reach 10m hectares by 2014The government is optimistic its production forests (HTI) will span over 5 million hectares by the year-end, and over 10 million hectares by 2014 as targeted, because the forestry industry can now resort to financing supported by government, an official says.
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International Paper Treads Monsanto’s Path to ‘Frankenforests’Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- International Paper Co., the world’s largest pulp and paper maker, plans to remake commercial forests in the same way Monsanto Co. revolutionized farms with genetically modified crops.
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Woodplantations will help developing countries to establish Sustainable Forest Management“The world needs more effective and focused international action on tropical forests. That will help
reduce poverty, protect biodiversity and also mitigate the effects of climate change.”
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Filling a Need: Forest Plantations for Bioenergy in the SouthThe growing number of renewable energy projects in the Southern U.S. utilizing woody biomass will require the development of short-rotation bioenergy plantations.
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SAPPI to restructure forestry business in the Kingdom of Swaziland SAPPI: Intended closure of Sappi Usutu Pulp Mill and restructuring of forestry business in the Kingdom of Swaziland in response to market conditions and forest fire damage.
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Pulpwood plantations in Brazil: the key to the futureSAO PAULO, Nov. 2, 2009 (RISI) - I've written a lot lately about the surge in biomass energy plantation investment in Brazil, but there has also been a strong expansion in eucalyptus pulpwood plantations in recent years. This expansion in plantations for pulpwood production is a key indicator of future expansion plans for the Brazilian pulp sector, and offers some interesting new opportunities for timberland investors. So I'm looking forward to RISI's upcoming Latin America Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference in Sao Paulo November 15-17 (http://www.risi.com/la_conf/), where I'll have a chance to chat with pulp producers from Brazil (and Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, etc.) about what's happening in their rapidly developing plantation programs.
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Biomass is driving forest plantations!As this blog has been sponsored by Greenwood Management, I wanted to have a direct discussion with the management team at Greenwood in order to get a feel as to how they saw the forestry industry at present, and what direction Greenwood Management saw forestry trends moving towards generally.
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Gunns favourite to manage Great SouthernTIMBER company Gunns is poised to further increase control of Australian forests, emerging as favourite to take over the running of Great Southern's management investment scheme plantations.
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Planting season in forestry plantationsThe rainy season in Brazil is from December to July and is universally recognised by the forestry operators in situ as the optimum time for planting out the seedlings destined for the forestry plantations.
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Gunns commits to plantation wood for Bell Bay pulp millGUNNS' proposed $2.5 billion Bell Bay pulp mill would begin operation with 100 per cent plantation timber, the company said today.
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URUGUAY: Forestry Industry Boom Brings Jobs and ChallengesPAYSANDÚ, Uruguay, Jan 6 (IPS) - "After work, when I'm on my own, I'm bored to death. If you want amenities, you have to bring them yourself," says young forestry worker Alejandro de Leiva, who works on a tree plantation in the western Uruguayan province of Paysandú, where he lives and works for 10 to 12 days in a row, with just two days off.
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Mozambique: Government Approves Eucalyptus PlantationsMaputo — The Mozambican government approved on Tuesday a project to plant eucalyptus trees for industrial purposes across large swathes of the northern province of Nampula.
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Africa: For Trees, Against MonocultureWindhoek — Growing demand for products like timber and biofuels is putting pressure on shrinking rainforests.
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Uganda: Growing Trees for Cash; a Long Term Lucrative VentureWhen Mr Ponsiano Besesa sold his four-storey-hotel in Kampala to invest in forestry in February last year, people thought he was going mad. But the old man had calculated and knew very well that trees would reap him more than what a hotel would.
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AGORA builds capacities in forestry in Morocco and Tunisia AGORA project brings together scientists and policy-makers to build new forest research capacities in Tunisia and Morocco based on effective transfer of scientific knowledge from Portugal, Italy, Spain, France and Turkey.
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Sino-Forest's Chairman & CEO Receives "2009 China Forestry Persons of the Year" Award
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The South African Forestry Sector: an overviewThe South African paper, pulp and board industry has consistently increased exports of paper and board and maintained imports at similar levels for the past three years, despite facing a number of challenges, says Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (Pamsa) executive director
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Malaysia: Daiken to get timber from its plantation in 2 yearsKUCHING: Japan’s Daiken Corp, which has invested some US$200mil in two medium density fibre (MDF) board plants in Sarawak, will start supplying raw materials from its tree plantation to local timber processing mills in two years.
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Nestle Waters (Vittel): Carbon offsetting programmes in PeruNestle Waters France wants to offset emissions from its factories in the west by buying trees in a rainforest thousands of miles away..
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Sappi Forests buys 14 500-ha plantation from MondiPaper and pulp manufacturer Sappi Forests said on Tuesday that it had extended its plantation holdings in South Africa with the purchase of the Sjonajona plantation in the Mpumalanga province from Mondi.
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) published its annual review of the Forest, Paper and Packaging industry in January 2010
Named “Forest, paper and packaging: CEO perspectives <of the year>”, PWC is doing quite a challenging annual job. And every year the report is coming up with astonishing intimate insights. But let us have a closer look to the latest report (the 2010 version):
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Tree-planting drive to earn Kenya revenue
Investors from industrialised countries are racing to strike financing deals with Kenya in partnerships set to open new avenues for donor support as the world switches to green economy.
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Sino-Forest ups stake to 53.7 pct from 19.9 pct Omnicorp Ltd  * To pay about $53.7 mln for 230 mln shares
* Says deal to help meet growing wood demand in China
* Sino-Forest V-C to become CEO of Omnicorp on completion
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ArborGen cleared to field test genetically engineered eucalyptus in US south Eucalyptus trees with a foreign gene that helps them withstand cold weather could become a new source of wood for pulp, paper, and biofuels in the Southern timber belt, said a report in the New York Times.
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Forest loss in India likely worse than conventionally believedResearchers have questioned 2009 findings by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) that found that India's forests were, unlike many tropical Asian nations', on the rebound. According to the FSI, Indian forests had grown by almost five percent from the 1990s. Yet, were these finding too good to be true?
According to Jean-Philippe Puyravaud and Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University, and William Laurance from James Cook University, the findings were very likely too optimistic.
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Italy-China Partnership: Poplar-based Agroforestry Benefits MillionsNestling on the North Jiangsu Plain, with a population of 1 million inhabitants, Siyang County is an ideal showcase of the integrated capacity of poplar forests to restore marginal flood plains, stabilizing the banks of the Yellow, Huai and Yangtze rivers and, directly and indirectly benefiti
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Scientists sound warning on forest carbon payment schemeScientists convening in Bali expressed a range of concerns over a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change through forest conservation, but some remained hopeful the idea could deliver long-term protection to forests, ease the transition to a low-carbon economy, and generate benefits to forest-dependent people.
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Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry PuzzleMONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) - "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
"But the ecological baggage of that consumption is the damage to our water, our soil, our farmers," she told Tierramérica.
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Groups oppose genetically engineered eucalyptus treesEnvironmentalists are challenging the plans of a S.C.-based biotechnology firm to grow genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in the South, saying the fast-growing Australian species could spread uncontrollably.
ArborGen LLC won federal permits in May to plant 330 acres of a eucalyptus hybrid in South Carolina and six other states. The test sites include Marlboro County, S.C., about 75 miles southeast of Charlotte.
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Chile joins Brazil in raising S.America's investment potentialInvesting experts are predicting that Brazil will be joined by Chile in leading the way for new, profitable investment opportunities in South America.
The abundant natural resources in Brazil – including timber and minerals – as well as the planned work to give it a global quality infrastructure, a strong currency and excellent showing during the global recession, have made it an attractive prospect for wealth creation opportunities.
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There’s gold in them forests – but not for plantationsLondon, Aug. 16, 2010 (RISI) - I recently took part in a web meeting on the future of the financial industry's interest in forestry. It was surprising how sophisticated banks, insurance companies and analysts are becoming in evaluating forestry investments.
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Mondi transfers 258 ha to KZN community Paper and packaging group Mondi has concluded its ninth land restitution settlement, transferring 258 ha of its forestry land to members of the Mkhwanazi community, in Port Durnford, in KwaZulu-Natal.
The members of the community will gain ownership of the land through the Phalane Trust and plan to derive a sustainable income from the land, while simultaneously progressively developing their own businesses to operate along the forestry value chain.
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Australia - MIS investors more hopefulThe future looks more promising for plantations in Australia’s collapsed management investment scheme (MIS) programs as reputable timber groups take on management and investors consider buying the timberland, or in some cases the land and its trees, The Australian reported on 18 September.
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Primary Accumulation and the Environment
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Statement of principles catalyst for Tasmanian pulp mill projectAustralian forest company Gunns Ltd, which is planning to build a new giant pulp mill on the Australian island of Tasmania, possibly in collaboration with Swedish Södra, welcomes a historic forest statement of principles, which was announced yesterday.
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GE plants $500 million investment in BrazilAmerican conglomerate, General Electric (GE), has chosen Brazil as the location for its fifth key research and development centre, in a deal that will see the company invest $500 million in the nation.
The decision was made to locate the centre in Brazil as the company emphasizes its push on expanding its global operations - particularly in South America. Ferdinando Becalli-Falco, president of GE International, said Latin America's largest economy presented it with a number of financial benefits.
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Três Lagoas will host the two largest pulp mills in the worldBrazilian Valonline reports today that Marcelo Castelli, director at Fibria Cellulose SA with eucalyptus plantings in the city Três Lagoas (In the state Mato Groso de Sul) will maintain the schedule for opening of the second line of factory in 2014.
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Brazil forest concession area exceeds 1m hectaresMore than one million hectares of prime Amazon Rainforest land in Brazil has been made available for a programme of forestry concessions, according to the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB).
The area involved in the programme is spread over seven areas within the states of Rondonia and Pará, and is estimated to have a total potential timber production value of approximately 850,000 cubic metres every year.
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New research project investigate the best fast-growing tree species for planting in AfricaThe forest industry is important for the economic development of South Africa.
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The Eucalyptus Crop and its BenefitsIn the past, agriculture was used exclusively to produce food, but now we are turning to crops as a source for energy use. Nowadays everyone is familiar with the argument s relating to the environment and how the energy we use directly affects are surroundings.
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Swiss Wood Firm To Invest 900 Million Euros In TunisiaSwitzerland-based Global Wood Holding will invest 900 million euros to grow Eucalyptus trees in Tunisia and export the wood to Europe, creating 45,000 jobs reports World Environmemt News. The project will be sited on 160,000 hectares in the Tunisian desert some 500 km (310 miles) sou
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Why does Mondi top WWF's global rating tool for paper companies?
BRUSSELS, Dez. 13, 2010 (RISI) - In part 1 of a two part series, Graeme Rodden, Executive Editor of Pulp & Paper International, examines why Mondi is at WWF's top of the tree when it comes to evironmental practice in pulp and paper.
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Stora Enso's joint venture mill in Uruguay closer to realizationMontes del Planta, the joint venture between Stora Enso and Chilean company Arauco, has received the environmental permit for its planned pulp mill project in Uruguay.
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Global Pulp & Paper Leader Announces New Research and Development Initiatives
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UPM to expand its seedling production in Finland and Uruguay
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Green Injustice: Environmentalists practice Corporate Social Irresponsibility
It's trendy to talk about "corporate social responsibility." The idea is companies have obligations beyond making a profit for their shareholders or creating products and services that their customers want; they have responsibilities to wider society as well.
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Where does the future lie for forestry?
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Mondi : Proposed Demerger of MPSA
South Africa, April 7, 2011 - Mondi Group today announced its intention to separate its interest in Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA) via a demerger whereby all the ordinary shares in MPSA held by Mondi Limited will be distributed to the Mondi Limited ordinary shareholders. MPSA would be listed under a new name on the securities exchange operated by the JSE Limited (JSE).
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New round of pulp and paper expansion in Indonesia
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SINO-FOREST COMMENTS ON SHARE PRICE DECLINE
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Alien plants 'can help alleviate poverty'
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Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests
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Fibria big expansion is discussed with the community at Três Lagoas in Brazil
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Timber movement control technology transfered The Brazilian computerised system for data recording in timber operations and trade called “Document of Forest Origin” (DOF) will
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Mondi Hosts Green Event at WWT Wetland Centre in BarnesVienna, Austria, Jul 5, 2011 – Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper UK is holding the Green Event at the WWT Wetland Centre in Barnes, London, UK, on the 29th September 2011.
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2012 Forestry Finance event call for presentationsThe Forest Industry Engineering Association together with most of the major financial and forestry industry associations in Australia and New Zealand ran an inaugural Future Forestry Finance Conference series in Sydney and Auckland in early March 2010. The turnout exceeded expectations.
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Company signs farmers on to US$30m eucalyptus projectBirla Laos Pulp and Plantation Company has invested about US$30 million to plant eucalyptus trees in Laos.
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Forestry Investments in Emerging Marketsnvestments in forestry have many desirable features. Under certain conditions, forestry investments yield attractive returns to investors and can contribute substantially to the economic, social and environmental development of countries.
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Brazil reforestation report highlights important trends in planted forest developmentSEATTLE, WA, Jul. 18, 2011 (RISI) - One of the most useful sources of information on the development of planted forests in Brazil is the Annual Statistical Yearbook published by ABRAF, the Brazilian Association of Plantation Forest Producers.
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Forestry Acquisition, MozambiqueObtala Resources Limited (AIM:OBT), the natural resource investment and development company, today announces that it has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement (”SPA”) to acquire a private Mozambique registered company (”Acquisition”).
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KTS Plantation awarded outstanding forest managementOTA KINABALU: KTS Plantation Sdn Bhd was awarded the Certificate of Compliance by the Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) for its outstanding performance in forest management, yesterday.
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Struggle about sustainable forestry in MalaysiaProf. dr. Helias Udo de Haes (CML), member of the Dutch Timber Procurement Assessment Committtee (TPAC), describes the newest development on the advice of the committee about forestry in Malaysia to the Dutch government.
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Congo to 'reforest' with plantations across one million hectares The Republic of the Congo has announced a new program to create plantations across one million hectares (2.47 million acres) of degraded forest lands.
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Workshop to determine land eligibility for CDM and VCS project development in IndiaAfforestation and Reforestation (AR) projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have faced various challenges, one of the key ones being the issue of ‘land eligibility’.
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Govt plans tree credits, village forests to improve green coverNAGPUR: The Maharashtra government will soon introduce the concepts of 'tree credit' and 'village forests' to improve green cover in the state. Both initiatives will be implemented by the social forestry department (SFD).
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Plan to sacrifice forest for sugar puts economy before ecosphere in Uganda
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Time to fell obstacles to tracing wood productsThere is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles.
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Portucel Soporcel Group Pursues Forestry Venture In Mozambique And Builds Up Sales PresencePortugal, Aug 31, 2011, The Portucel Soporcel is exhibiting again at the 47th Maputo International Trade Fair
(FACIM), the largest trade event with an international dimension in Mozambique.
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We are losing our natural forests to tree plantations yet on paper, all is well because these plantations are considered ‘forests’.
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Sustainable Forestry Plantations Can Turn into a Way to Save the Brazilian RainforestRecently, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment announced data showing a decrease in the deforestation rates in the Amazon during the past couple of months.
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Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Calls for Facts Not Fiction about Forest Protection
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Plantation plan is the key to future growth, says inquiryThe Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries & Forestry has issued the findings of its inquiry into the forestry sector.
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Trees are Themba Radebe’s life. In 2007 he realised a dream by buying a gum tree plantation after working for forestry and packaging company Mondi for almost 20 years.
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Carbon market driving new plantings - MAFThe Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry says foresters seeking carbon credits through the Emissions Trading Scheme have been driving much of the increase in new tree plantings.
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Komatsu Forest Wins Major Contracts in South AmericaForest machine manufacturer Komatsu Forest has signed a major deal with the new Brazilian pulp mill Eldorado Brasil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. In its entirety, the contract is worth about 1.4 billion Swedish kronor (US$ 200 million).
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GEF Closes $160 Million Fund for Sustainable Forestry in AfricaGlobal Environment Fund, a U.S. private-equity firm with $1 billion under management, completed the closing of a $160 million fund for sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Ugandans Invest in Trees, For Profit, ConservationWealthy investors in Uganda are taking advantage of a new money-making opportunity investing in trees. Trees have become an attractive investment because of the rising cost of timber and the allure of carbon credits. The Ugandan government sees these so-called "tree banks" as a means to combat deforestation. But practice remains controversial.
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Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper Celebrates 5 Years of the Green Range With the Launch of Online Green ModulesMondi Uncoated Fine Paper (UFP) has launched an online training tool, the Green Modules, to provide customers with an educational tool and information about sustainable paper production. Mondi created the online microsite (www.mondigroup.com/greenmodules), which is accessible to the wider public by registering online and provides unlimited access to the modules.
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Focus on protecting wildlife, not commercial forestry practicesInstead of protecting wildlife, the proposed wildlife preservation act focuses more on giving more power and dominion to an incompetent forest department widely criticised for its commercial forestry practices, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.
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Industry bodies emphasise sustainability of SA forestry sector The domestic forestry and pulp and paper sectors do not have as negative an impact on the environment as many people might believe, industry bodies Forestry South Africa (Forestry SA) and the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (Pamsa) emphasise.
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Eucalyptus and pine log prices in Brazil close to all-time highEucalyptus and pine log prices in Brazil close to all-time highs in the 4Q/11, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly Wood costs for pulp mills and sawmills in Brazil have gone up over the
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Global tree farms becoming more diverseSEATTLE, WA, Mrz. 26, 2012 (RISI) - After five years, and repeated requests by clients, Dennis Neilson and I spent much of the last six months updating our in-depth look at investments in plantation forestry around the world.
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Natural teak forests decline, while planted teak forests increase6 March, 2012, Rome - The results of a new FAO global Teak Resources and Market Assessment conducted in 60 tropical countries show that natural teak forests are declining worldwide and that the quality of natural gro
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FRA welcomes Prediction of Timber demand increaseA recent report in the Financial Times has provided a boost for the forestry investment industry, as it outlines how timber demand could increase by 55 per cent by 2050, according to FRA.
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New Forests Leads Purchase of 46,000 Hectare Australian Softwood PlantationFunds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46,000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the 64-property estate, formerly owned and managed by Gunns Limited.
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Eucalyptus developer begins final field trial FuturaGene, a genetic research and development firm focused on enhancing the eucalyptus tree, has been granted approval to begin a fourth field trial of its genetically modified eucalyptus tree in Brazil.
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Uganda ‘tree banks’ offer investors good returnsFor Peter Nyeko, a Ugandan businessman always on the lookout for the next hot investment, nothing in the world beats the humble tree.
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Forests remain a source of conflictThe world’s largest producer of teak, an Indonesian state-owned company on the island of Java, has again been awarded sustainable forest management (SFM) certification.
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A Papermaker’s Perspective on Sustainable ForestryThere is not a single matter related to papermaking that touches each of us as personally and emotionally as forestry. Simply put, people love trees.
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Govt plans to allocate RM3 bil for forest plantationsThe government plans to allocate RM3 billion for expansion of forest plantations in the country to achieve an area covering 375,000 hectares by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) said today.
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Large scale carbon forestry planting underwayPLANTING of more than 10,000 hectares of mallee eucalypt trees is now underway as part of one fo the largest carbon forestry projects in Australia.
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Logs from Australia plantations set to growLog supply from Australia’s timber plantations is set to increase substantially according to a new report, released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).
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Timberland in Institutional Investment Portfolios: Can Significant Investment Reach Emerging Markets?A survey was carried out to improve the understanding of current investment patterns in forestry by investors and of the framework in which such investments are made.
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At least 2,500 farmers in the western districts of Uganda are earning extra cash to boost their livelihoods by planting trees alongside their crops in a scheme that is helping to sequester carbon dioxide.
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Safcol pins hopes on new business model to unlock R3bn project pipeline Stated-owned forestry company Safcol, which improved its financial performance in 2011/12 on the back of a recovery in lumber markets, expects to complete a review into its future role and structure by September, which could open the way for it to again invest in sawmilling and extend its Souther
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Consumer demand 'can influence sustainable forestry'Harvesting forestry sustainably and profitably is entirely possible, but requires consumers and businesses to pressurise governments into action.
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India's incredible farm forestry programSometime in October, 2012, a farmer in the northeastern corner of Andhra Pradesh state in India will plant a very special sapling.
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The GM tree plantations bred to satisfy the world's energy needsIt's a timber company's dream but a horrific industrial vision for others: massive plantations of densely planted GM eucalyptus trees stretching across
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