SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forestry news SOUTHEM Online - Issue 297 19 April 2013 Hi, Hola and

nd Oi Welcome to this edition of Southem Online. The latest edition of the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal is out. The main theme of this edition is around Forestry outcomes all about investment aspirations See more at http://www.southem.com/2013/04/forestry-outcomes-all-about-the-aspirations/ See our latest line up of articles below. Cheers and Saludos from Down Under Mike Smith Editor and Director Email: info@southem.com URL: www.southem.com SOUTHEM COMMUNITY REGISTRATION Send an email to subscribe@southem.com LINKEDIN GROUP @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2218173 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. UGA FORESTRY INVESTMENT CONFERENCE DRAWS WIDE AUDIENCE The University of Georgias Center for Forest Business 2013 Timberland Investment Conference has been described as a huge success. The more than 500 conference attendees made the Amelia Island, Florida, event, the largest so far. http://uga.edu/amazing/profile/welch-chelsea/ LASER TECHNOLOGY - MAKING MEASURING TREES AND MONITORING SLOPE GRADES SIMPLE Laser Technology means timber cruisers can now make tree heights and monitoring slope grades a simple task. Surveying jobs such as sale boundaries and stem mapping can now become effortless. If you are involved with mill operations and need to measure chip or log volumes, nothing could be easier than when using our laser rangefinders and software solutions. Imagine not having to wade through

creeks or fight through foliage just to get a usable field measurement. http://www.lasertech.com/Forestry.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. 150 FAMILIES RECEIVE HOUSES IN EARTHQUAKE REBUILD Houses have been handed over to 150 families in the Chilean province of Bio Bio. Most of the families were those affected by the earthquake that devastated a wide area of central Chile in February 2010. Regional and local government representatives, including the governor of Bio Bio, arrived to share with families the fulfilment of the dream of home ownership, a government statement said. This is a housing project whose investment exceeded $Ch1,800 million financed through the Housing Solidarity Fund and assisted some 120 families affected by the earthquake, and another 30 through a regular subsidy.

1 Jorge Gonzales and Olga Rodriquez happily receive their new house (Courtesy gobernacionbiobio.gov.cl)

GUNNS TIMBER PLANTATIONS GOING ON OPEN MARKET More than 200,000 hectares of timber plantations established by the collapsed Tasmanian company Gunns are being put on the market, the ABC has reported. Liquidator PPB Advisory had previously said it was in talks with parties interested in taking over management of the multi-million-dollar investment schemes. It is believed Macquarie Group and the company WA Blue Gum were among those in discussions. NSW NURSERY CLOSURE STILL ON TABLE The closure of the New South Wales nursery in Dubbo cannot be ruled out, says the local politician, Troy Grant says he cannot rule out the closure of the Forests New

South Wales. The ABC has reported the State Government decided to lease its six retail nurseries, including the one in Dubbo, more than a year ago as it said they were not a key responsibility. Mr Grant says plans to sell the Dubbo facility have not been successful but the government is still negotiating a potential lease. He says it could still consider closing the nursery. [The following items and pics are contributed from INTA Concordia, Argentina] Designing and Building Useful Wooden Furniture A group of rural carpenters have met under the auspices of INTA Concordia in Argentina with the object of designing and building useful wooden furniture. The group started by designing and building a folding chair, so the chairs would occupy less space, are portable, practical and can be used in various situations.

Trees Planted in Youth Justice Facility Officials of the provincial government in the Argentine province of Corrientes have planted trees in a youth justice facility, INTA Concordia has reported. The trees were planted under the programme Trees for My City.

CHINA FORUM RAISES HOPES FOR BAY OF PLENTY FORESTRY BOOST The forestry industry in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand expects to gain from recent high-level contacts at a recent forum in China. Forestry representatives involved with the region's economic growth strategy group, Bay of Connections, had an input into what was brought to the table in Beijing and PF Olsen chief executive

Peter Clark, spoke at the forum. Bay of Connections forestry action group chairman, Bryce Heard, said in a statement that the forum in China could help to set the path for future growth for the industry. FOREST FAMILIES GATHER TO REMEMBER Workers who have been killed in New Zealand's forests will be remembered at a Workers Memorial Day service in Auckland on Sunday April 28. Workers Memorial Day is an annual global event to remember those who have been killed while doing their job. The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has called for an inquiry into the most dangerous industry in NZ - since 2008, 23 workers have died and almost 900 have been seriously injured. ************************************************ SOUTHEM VIDEOS Radiata Pine From Chile Timber Lumber Logs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUckDk21S7A SOUTHEM KORERO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THEME FOR LATAM FORESTRY CONGRESS Between 1500 and 2000 participants are expected to attend the fourth Congress Forestal Latinoamericano in Argentina this coming September, Novedades Forestales INTA Concordia has reported. The Latin American Forestry Congress will be held in the city of Iguaz in Misiones between 23 and 27 September 2013 under the theme Sustainable Forest Management, Future Possible. Presentations at a meeting recently highlighted the key focus on environmental sustainability, social responsibility, innovation and competitive production. http://www.congresoforestal.org.ar/ BUILDING HOUSES USING HARDWOOD WITH CANADIAN TECHNOLOGY 24 April 24 2013. . Talks around the technical systems required to build houses with hardwood based on Canadian Technology. By Ing. Ftal. Martin Sanchez Acosta. INTA Concordia. College of Professional Engineering and Land Surveying (CPIA) San Martin and Molinari, Esquel, Chubut. Contacts: Alejandro Jovanovski ajovanovski@ciefap.org.ar www.ciefap.org.ar Martin Honorato mhonorato@correo.inta.gov.ar ARGENTINA FURNITURE BUILDING 24-27 April 2013. Crdoba, Argentina. FIMAR 2013. Internacional Fair of Argentine Furniture Manufacturing Week. La Forja Crdoba info@fimarweb.com.ar www.fimarweb.com.ar FOREST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - EURO LEGAL ASPECTS 14-17 May 2013. 15th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European

Forest Sustainable Development. Tirana, Republic of Albania. First Announcement and Call for Papers. http:///www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/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. THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITYS 26TH SSP 2013 IN BRAZIL The 26th annual Space Studies Program (SSP) will be held at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) campus in So Jos dos Campos, Brazil in 2013. The dates of the session are 17 June through 16 August 2013. Official Website: http://www.isunet.edu/programs/space-studies-program Call for Applications: http://www.isunet.edu/how-to-apply-ssp Call for Fellowships: http://www.isunet.edu/funding-and-scholarships ARGENTINAE AND LATAM FORESTRY CONGRESS 23-28 September 2013. The fourth Argentina and Latin American Forestry Congress (Congreso Forestal Argentino y Latinamericano). Theme: Sustainable Forestry/Future Possible. City of Iguaz (Provincia de Misiones). http://www.congresoforestal.org.ar/ 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.