SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal Online news briefs SOUTHEM Online - Issue 286 7 August

t 2012 Hi and Hola Welcome to this edition of Southem Online. Cheers and Saludos from Down Under Mike Smith Editor and Director Email: info@southem.com URL: www.southem.com SOUTHEM COMMUNITY REGISTRATION You can register for this free e-news headlines service. Send an email to subscribe@southem.com LINKEDIN GROUP @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2218173 YAHOO GROUP @ http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/southemonline/?yguid=224336867 FACEBOOK @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/southem/33458700993?ref=ts SPONSORS MESSAGES Help keep this publication free please visit our sponsors today! Contact info@southem.com for sponsorship details. REMSOFT TO PRESENT AT FOREST TECH 2012 Melbourne, Australia & Rotorua, New Zealand November 28th, 2012 Remsoft will be attending this years's Forest Tech 2012 Conference: Improving Wood Transport & Logistics taking place in both Melbourne, Australia (November 2829, 2012) and Rotorua, New Zealand (December 4-5, 2012). Remsofts Anthony Kruning will be presenting 'International Trends and Best Practices in Optimization Modeling for Sales and Operations Planning'. In this success story approach, Remsoft will profile use cases from Brazil, Europe, Australia, and Canada. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting with Anthony while he's Down Under, please contact info@remsoft.com FORESTLAND INVESTMENT CONFERENCE Hold the Date! The University of Georgia Center for Forest Business announces its 2013 Forestland Investment Conference, February 27 through March 1, 2013 at the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida USA. Key North American and International forestland analysts and investors plan to attend. For details please contact:

Bob Izlar, + 1.706.542.6819, bizlar@warnell.uga.edu More information soon on our website: http://www.ugacfb.com/ LASER TECHNOLOGY, INC. DARES ALL ARCPAD USERS TAKE THE LaserGIS CHALLENGE Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI), the designer and manufacturer of the most popular line of mapping lasers and rangefinders, is daring all ArcPad users to take a GIS mobile mapping challenge. This new campaign was officially announced at the opening day of Esris User Conference, July 25th 2012. The challenge is to test out an LTI TruPulse 360 mapping laser and the LaserGIS ArcPad extension completely risk free without any upfront costs or obligation. This campaign is designed to persuade GIS professionals to simply "try" something that will prove to save time and money and offer an immediate ROI. Find out more at: http://www.lasertech.com/Laser-Technology-Dares-All-ArcPad-Users-to-Take-theLaserGIS-Challenge.aspx **************************************** COPYRIGHT NOTICE Items headlined in SOUTHEM Online are drawn from a number of sources. The source of the item is quoted, either by publication or organisations in line with the practice of fair reporting. Items originally published in Spanish are translated by TMS Ltd. Every effort is made to ensure use of paid wire service material is avoided at all times. Should users wish to utilise SOUTHEM Online on their own web sites, we request that this is done to accurately reflect the current layout to ensure attribution is appropriate. ************************************************ WHAT HARVARD MANAGEMENT CEO JANE MENDILLO REALLY SAID What did the Chief Executive Officer of Harvard Management Company really say about forests when she took part in a televised discussion among high-powered fund managers? Jane Mendillos appearance on the CNBC Delivering Alpha Conference is being reported in this part of the world as a triumph for investing in New Zealand forestry. New Zealand was not mentioned but she did say how HMC, with US$32B in investment funds, did favour natural resources. See what Jane Mendillo really said by going to the link below. http://www.southem.com/2012/08/what-harvard-management-company-ceo-janemendillo-really-said/ HOPES RAISED, AGAIN, FOR TASMANIAS FORESTRY PEACE DEAL Hopes are being raised that the protracted negotiations around a forest peace deal in the Australian island-state of Tasmania may be coming to a conclusion. Hopes have been raised before, only to be dashed. However, the ABC reports the arrival of the Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, in Tasmania is seen as possibly foreshadowing an outcome to a process started in 2010. http://www.southem.com/2012/08/hopes-raised-again-for-tasmanias-forestry-peacedeal/

ARGENTINE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY SLOWS Argentine construction activity in Argentina during June dropped for the third consecutive month compared to a year ago. The drop was 1.5% according to official figures reported by MercoPress. The main construction companies involved in public works and in the private sector said that in the third quarter the decrease tendency in activity will persist. http://www.southem.com/2012/08/argentine-construction-activity-slow/ ANNUAL LATAM FOOD INFLATION RATE TO YEARS HIGHEST LEVEL The annual inflation rate in Latin America and the Caribbean food was 8.9% in June, its highest level so far this year, the said regional office of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. La Nacion reported the indicator was 0.8 percentage points higher than reported in May, due to an increase in the value of the chicken, tomatoes, and onions mainly, said a statement from the FAO, which has its regional office in Santiago, Chile. http://www.southem.com/2012/08/annual-latin-american-food-inflation-rate-to-yearshighest-level-eng-sp/ ELDORADO BRASIL ADOPTS HIGH PRECISION SYSTEM FOR MEASURING WOOD LOADS The Brazilian company Eldorado Brasil is installing a system to handle as much as 6 million cubic metres of timber a year to supply resources to the largest single pulp mill in the world, at Trs Lagoas (MS). Painel Florestal reports the company sought the most modern equipment in the world and acquired, in November last year, Logmeter 4000 solution, which will load measurement on the trucks stacked. Developed by Woodtech Measurement Solutions, the solution has already been adopted by other companies in Brazil as Berneck, Suzano, Fibria, Cenibra and Arauco and consists of a high-precision laser system for measuring loads of wood. http://www.southem.com/2012/08/eldorado-brasil-turns-to-high-tech-solution-to-meetmeasuring-challenge/ SOUTH AFRICAN LAND RESTITUTION PAID OFF, MOSTLY Financial compensation for post-apartheid land restitution in South Africa was mostly well spent, despite misgivings by the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights, a report has found. Engineering News reported Princeton Professor Bernadette Atuahene compiled the report, "Paying for the Past: Addressing Past Property". She found that in about 30 per cent of the cases, the restitution award did produce "a substantial economic benefit". http://www.southem.com/2012/08/financial-awards-can-hasten-south-african-landrestitution-process-princeton-profs-report/ WEYERHAEUSER URUGUAY BOOSTS SAFETY IN FORESTRY SECTOR Weyerhaeuser Productos S.A., the Uruguay offshoot of the US group, is endeavouring to raise awareness and continue the training of professional drivers at service of the company. The theme focused on aspects related to road safety in the country, the conditions of the company fleet, the risk factors in the operation and the prospects for the future. Technical and conductive analysed causes, consequences, and preventive mechanisms, identifying conditions and risk behaviors, both own such as those arising from external variables. (Source: Guia Forestal)

http://www.southem.com/2012/08/weyerhaeuser-uruguay-boosting-forestry-transportsafety-eng-sp/ ARAUCO HERALDS ERA OF NEW LABOUR RELATIONS The Chilean forestry company Arauco is aiming to institute a new era of labour relations. Recently, the company included in 58 hours of study 25 trade union leaders of 11 companies that provide services to Bosques Arauco S.A. Its reported those involved soaked new techniques for effective negotiation, communication aimed at coordination in the enterprise, labour law and social security, as well as relevant materials on risk prevention. Arauco said in a statement that for its forestry and forest affiliates this initiative was part of its new way of doing things, seeking to promote a more harmonious relationship and dialogue between companies and their workers through a new model of labour relations. ARAUCOS ANGLICA PRATS GUEST SPEAKER ON SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Meanwhile, Arauco Educational Foundation manager Anglica Prats was a guest speaker at the seminar How to improve our schools? organized by the Center for Comparative Policies in Education (CPCE) of the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile. The seminars objective was to present and learn from successful school interventions conducted in Chile and New Zealand. GREEN STAR FOR AUS BUILDING PRODUCTS ENCOURAGED The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has released a Discussion Paper Life Cycle Assessment in Green Star for stakeholder feedback by 15 August 2012. The GBCA is a national, not-for-profit organisation launched in 2002 committed to developing a sustainable property industry for Australia by encouraging the adoption of green building practices. The Australian Forest Products Association reported that it considered that integrating LCA principles into Green Star would offer many benefits to GBCA current approach. AFPA welcomes the investigation into a LCA approach and plans to supply feedback on the discussion paper along with other interested industry stakeholders. SOUTHEM VIDEOS CHILE'S BIOSPHERE RESERVE 'RESCUED' Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports from Neltume in the Patagonian jungle.. http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/07/2012717103217662543.html? goback=.gde_2218173_member_140352220 THE WONDERS OF THE WALL A world first, Gibson Group talk about their global award winning storytelling platform that takes museums to the streets, turning data into a captivating social experience. http://youtu.be/82wex_mQAkc SOUTHEM ARTICLES A CASE STUDY FROM A RURAL COMMUNITY IN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA Molares, S., and Ladio, A. 2012. Mapuche perceptions and conservation of Andean Nothofagus forests and their medicinal plants: a case study from a rural

community in Patagonia, Argentina. Biodiversity and Conservation. April 2012, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp 1079-1093. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-012-0241-2 PREDICTING STAND-LEVEL TREE COUNT DENSITIES Murphy, G. (2012). Evaluation of an occlusion adjustment model for predicting hidden stems when using terrestrial laser scans in natural and plantation forests in Australia and USA. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, 42, 57-63. Popular summary: Murphy (pp.57-63) developed an occlusion adjustment model that can be used to predict stand-level tree count densities with minimal errors based on terrestrial laser scanning data. http://www.scionresearch.com/general/publications/nzjfs/nzjfs-volume-42-2012 INVASIVE RATS AND COLONIST BIRDS Pattemore, D.E., and Wilcove, D.S. 2012. Invasive rats and recent colonist birds partially compensate for the loss of endemic New Zealand pollinators. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 279(1733):1597-1605. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1733/1597.abstract PROGRESS ON REFORMS IN FORESTRY TENURE IN LATIN AMERICA Iliana Monterroso RRI: Information on the progress in reforms in the forestry tenure in Latin America, challenges for forest communities, and pressures on forest land. Presented at the event: "the legal certainty of the Earth: challenges for indigenous peoples," August 1, 2012. http://www.rightsandresources.org/publication_details.php?publicationID=5293 CORAL REEF EMERGENCY: 2,600 SCIENTISTS CALL FOR WORLDWIDE RESCUE Coral reefs worldwide are being destroyed by changes in ocean temperature and chemistry faster than at any time since the last reef crisis 55 million years ago, thousands of marine scientists warned in a joint statement on July 9 from Cairns, Australia, reported Environment News Service. http://www.icrs2012.com/Consensus_Statement.htm **************************************** SOUTHEM OPPORTUNITIES MANAGING DIRECTOR BORDER TIMBERS LIMITED Top Executive with relevant Forestry and Timber Management experience at leadership level required Valcol Executive Appointments, a division of the Valcol Group has been exclusively retained by Border Timbers Limited, a diversified Agro forestry and timber business, based in the Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, to assist in the search and selection of applicants to be considered for the role of Managing Director. The company operates three divisions in Forestry, Sawmilling and Manufacturing. The forestry division manages a total of five estates. Logs harvested by the divisions are processed at three sawmills. Today, it is one of the largest and most modern sawmills in Southern Africa. Most of the timber produced from the sawmills is further

processed into valued added products and exported into both regional and international markets. The company employs over 3000 personnel. The Managing Director leads the organization in the development and implementation of strategic plans, which support the groups corporate strategy and annual business plans. He/she is responsible for managing the businesses and departments, together with commercial activities of sawmilling and finished goods manufactured, for profitability on behalf of the Shareholders. We require a dynamic and seasoned leader and therefore consideration will be given to any semi-retired Executive together with other senior managers seeking new opportunities. You must hold a degree in Forestry Sciences, Finance, and/or Business Management with Timber and Forestry leadership experience. You must be a seasoned, motivational, and visionary leader with 15 - 20 years of broad-based forestry experience, 10 years of which have been general management and commercial experience. A post graduate qualification is desired. Our client offers an exciting and rewarding career and in return will offer an attractive remuneration package, together with exceptional living and working conditions and benefits required. Interested please send your full CV together with 3 reference contacts to Colin Roberts, Managing Director (confidentiality assured): colin@valcol.co.zw

SOUTHEM KORERO LEGAL ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN FOREST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 19-21 September, 2012 IUFRO Division 9: Forest Policy and Economics. Research Group 9.06.00 (former 6.13.00): Forest Law and Environmental Legislation. International Symposium, Republic of Belarus 2012. 14th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European Forest Sustainable Development. Minsk, Republic of Belarus. First Announcement and Call for Papers. http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/ Contact Peter HERBST, e-mail: HP@net4you.at or Vitalie GULCA, email: vitalie.gulca@gmail.com or vitaliegulca@yahoo.com NZ FORESTRY AWARDS 20 September 2012 New Zealand Forest Industry Training Awards (FITEC). Rotorua Energy Events Centre. 6 pm. http://www.fitec.org.nz/Awards/ IMPROVING LIVES WITH POPLARS AND WILLOWS - PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT 24th Session of the International Poplar Commission and 46th Executive Committee Meeting. Improving Lives with Poplars and Willows @ Dehradun, India, 8-12 October 2012. http://www.fao.org/forestry/ipc2012/en/

II CONGRESO BOLIVIANO DE BOTNICA/BOLIVIAN BOTANY CONGRESS 11-13 October 2012. The Second Bolivian Botany Congress. La Paz, Bolivia. This important Congress is organised by the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecologa and Carrera de Biologa de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrs in collaboration with the Universidad Mayor de San Simn in Cochabamba, Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca in Sucre, Universidad Amaznica de Pando in Cobija y la Universidad Autnoma Gabriel Ren Moreno in Santa Cruz. Website: http://sites.google.com/site/iicongresobotanicabolivia2012/ LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 5-12 November 2012. Biannual IUFRO Forest Landscape Ecology Conference: Sustaining Humans and Forests in Changing Landscapes: Forests, Society and Global Change. Concepcin, Chile. IUFRO 8.01.02, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-8/80000/80100/80102/. Contact: Cristian Echeverria, cristian.echeverria(at)udec.cl; Sandra Luque, sandra.luque(at)cemagref.fr. http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division8/80000/80100/80102/activities/ THIRD IUFRO LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS IUFRO and CATIE are organizing IUFROLAT 2013: the Third IUFRO Latin American Congress; San Jos, Costa Rica; 12-15 June 2013. Details tba. BRAZIL TO HOST 2015 WORLD STATS CONGRESS The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics will host in the second half of 2015, the 60th World Congress of Statistics, organised by the International Statistical Institute. Go to: http://www.isi-web.org/ ************************************************* NEWS ONLINE Do you have news items you wish to make available to others on SOUTHEM Online? If so, please send them to info@southem.com ************************************************ MISSING? Did we miss you off the list, or do you have an associate who may want to receive SOUTHEM Online. If so, please feel free to register by sending a message to info@southem.com ************************************************** REMOVE If you would prefer not to receive further issues of this newsletter, please reply to me at email info@southem.com with the word Remove in the subject.