SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal Online news briefs SOUTHEM Online - Issue 268 11 July

y 2011 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.southernhemisphereforestry.co.nz and 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. UNITED STATES TIMBERLAND MARKETS: TRANSACTIONS, VALUES AND MARKET RESEARCH Private timberland ownership in the United States has changed structure over the past ten years. More than 40 million acres of US timberland have shifted ownership in approximately 600 large transactions since 2000. The global timberland investment community gathered in March at Reynolds Plantation, Georgia, for the Warnell Center for Forest Business (CFB) Timberland Investment Conference 2011 to discuss the current timberland investment climate and challenges ahead. Jacek Siry of the CFB presented Private Forestland Ownership Change in the US. He summarized findings from his new book US Timberland Markets: 2000 to 2010 which was jointly authored with Tom Harris and Sara Baldwin of Timber Mart-South. For more information. http://www.timbermart-south.com/pdf/US_Timberland_Markets_TOC_201104.pdf Or email: sbaldwin@warnell.uga.edu

CANADIAN EXPERT TO APPEAR AT NEW ZEALAND FOREST INDUSTRIES AS WOOD BUILDING EMERGES FROM THE DUST OF NATURAL DISASTERS A leading Canadian architect featured in the recent edition of Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal linking up via video with delegates at the NZ Forest Industries Conference in September. Michael Green is promoting multi-storey wooden buildings worldwide and the Journal examines the increased focus on wood building following a number of natural disasters. Earthquakes in Chile, New Zealand and Japan have given new breath to the discussion surrounding the strength of wood as a building material. Including is an interview with a Canadian architect at the forefront of the push for multistorey wooden buildings along with research being carried out in New Zealand and Australia and developments involving a Chilean wood industry agency. For more information, please contact the editor: mike.smith@southem.com FORESTS FEATURE NEW FANTASY NOVEL A mystical forest plays a leading role in new fantasy novel by Rotorua, New Zealand-based author Sarah Groot. The Forgotten is the first book in The Faynon Chronicles in which beautiful Princess Sindra rises from the street to take control of her destiny as leader of Galadon Knights who have spent generations hidden deep in the forests. Now available from Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle download. For more details and to buy, go to: Paperback at http://tinyurl.com/sgpaper Kindle at http://tinyurl.com/sgkindle **************************************** 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. ************************************************ FORESTRY SECTOR EXCLUDED FROM AUSTRALIAN CARBON FARMING POLICY Commercial forestry activities appear to have been excluded from a key aspect of Australias related to policies announced as part of a new carbon pricing initiatives. The government has announced a carbon price covering 500 businesses, along with assistance for Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed (EITE) activities, a Clean Technology Investment Program and that the forestry industry has been exempted from paying a carbon price on fuel

use. However, the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has raised concern that commercial forestry is effectively excluded from a Carbon Farming Initiative launched as part of the announcement. CAPE GRIMS GREENHOUSE GAS CHANGES READING MAKE GRIM READING Meanwhile, levels of methane and nitrous oxide reported by a key southern hemisphere station are said to have increased 15 per cent since 1976. Cape Grim, on Tasmanias west coast, is one of the three premier Baseline Air Pollution Stations in the World Meteorological Organization-Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO-GAW) network. The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station monitors Southern Hemispheric air. Concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide at Cape Grim have also increased significantly since 1978 by about 20 and 8 per cent respectively. ************************************************ SOUTH AFRICAN GOVT - PRICE COMPETITION IN FIRST RENEWABLES ROUND The South African Government has confirmed that price competition will feature in the procurement process for the first round of renewable energy projects, Engineering News has reported. The 2009 renewable energy feedin tariffs (Refit) to be use as a ceiling price against which potential developers should tender their offers, the report said. Energy Minister Dipuo Peters is reported to have signed off on the bid documentation, and Department of Energy (DoE) director-general Nelisiwe Magubane reported that the only outstanding matter was confirmation from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) that it concurred with the determination. Once that concurrence was gained, the department and the National Treasury would officially release the tender, along with the selection criteria, which would include a pricing dimension. Other criteria likely to be included could be project technical viability, localisation, job creation, grid connectivity, environmental acceptability and local economic development spinoffs. ************************************************ BIOREFINERIES WILL TAKE BIGGER SLICE OF BRAZIL PLANTED FOREST OUTPUT Brazil now a world leader in pulp production is placing more effort into the development of wood biorefineries as new sources of chemical products for industrial uses, Revista da Madeira has reported. REMADE quoted an executive from the big Brazilian pulp and paper firm, Klabin, as saying the sector was already developing its plantation forests so they could not only supply future mill requirements but also the expansion into birefineries. The company y had identified and studied processes for the extraction of some substances contained in the chemical components of wood, although few commercial applications had been found so far, Francisco Razzolini, director of projects, industrial technology and supplements at Klabin said. ************************************************

URUGUAY LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC-PRIVATE INVESTMENT FOR PORT HIGHWAY The Uruguay Government has announced the first call for interest in publicprivate participation (PPP) projects to build a new highway to serve the port of Nueva Palmira. Nueva Palmira is a free port on the Rio Uruguay, and handles much of Uruguays grain, pulp and minerals exports. Once the PPP is completed by the end of the year, its expected first contracts are expected to be awarded in early 2012, El Observador reported. ************************************************ NO PORT, NO PROJECT PORTUCEL Meanwhile, Portuguese pulp and paper group Portucel has said developing a deep-water port is necessary before it will commit to developing a project in Uruguay. In a note to investors, Portucel confirmed its interest in developing a project in Uruguay, although adding that it would depend on developments in the field of logistics, and, especially, in the construction of a deep waters port in which "there have not been developments during the first quarter of the year." The message was included in the groups first quarter report for this financial year, El Pais reported. ************************************************ WILDFIRES FIGURE HIGH IN FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS How the frequency and intensity of wildfires and intentional biomass burning will change in a future climate requires closer scientific attention, according to CSIROs Dr Melita Keywood. Dr Keywood said it is likely that fire one of natures primary carbon-cycling mechanisms will become an increasingly important driver of atmospheric change as the world warms. Dr Keywoods presentation was based on a paper, Fire in the Air Biomass burning impacts in a changing climate, just published in the journal Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. ************************************************ SYNTHETIC CANNABIS PRODUCTS CAUSING WORKPLACE DANGERS Readily available legal synthetic cannabis products are posing significant dangers for workplaces and workers, says one of New Zealands leading workplace behavioural healthcare companies. Instep Limiteds chief executive Matthew Beattie says, The rapidly escalating use of Kronic, Spice, Dream, K2 and other synthetic cannabis products now has major implications in the New Zealand workplace. ************************************************ CASTELLI ASSUMES PRESIDENCY OF FIBRIA Marcelo Castelli, a mechanical engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the pulp and paper sector, has assumed the presidency of the Fibria as at the start of July. The executive was previously the Director of

Paper, Strategy and Supplements. Carlos Aguiar, who presided over the Fibria since its creation, will assume a position in Administration Counsel for the company, from 2012. ************************************************ SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE VIDEOS USE OF WOOD Universidad Catlica de Chile provides an interesting video about the promotion of innovative ways of using wood in buildings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I74o9JOXu4 GLOBAL FORESIGHT Australian scientists give a rundown on the CSIRO Global Foresight Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdBKDi5Osk ************************************************ ARTICLES OF INTEREST: Watt, M. S., Palmer, D. J., & Hck, B. K. (2011). Spatial description of potential areas suitable for afforestation within New Zealand and quantification of their productivity under Pinus radiata. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, 41, 115-129. http://www.scionresearch.com/general/science-publications/sciencepublications/nzjfs/nzjfs-volume-41-2011 Hargreaves, C. L., Reeves, C. B., Find, K. I., Gough, K., Menzies, M. I., Low, C. B., & Mullin, T. J. (2011). Overcoming the challenges of family and genotype representation and early cell line proliferation in somatic embryogenesis from control-pollinated seeds of Pinus radiata. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, 41, 97-114. http://www.scionresearch.com/general/science-publications/sciencepublications/nzjfs/nzjfs-volume-41-2011 Pete Watt and Michael Watt. Applying Satellite Imagery for Forest Planning. New Zealand Journal of Forestry (2011) 56(1): 2325. http://www.nzjf.org/abstract.php?volume_issue=j56_1&first_page=23 Asia and the Pacific Symposium - Vulnerability Assessments to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards. Editors: Antonio M. Dao, Karen Rae M. Fortus, Sim Heok-Choh. Extended Abstracts from the symposium held in Manila, Philippines, 7-10 December 2010, jointly organized by Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB), Asia Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI), in association with (IUFRO), Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM).. Soon available at: http://www.iufro.org/publications/series/world-series/#c18479

Special Brazil multimedia feature: Protecting forests, fighting climate change: Searching for lessons in the Amazon In an effort to make the latest on-the-ground research about REDD+ more accessible to a broader range of stakeholders, CIFOR's Outreach Manager Daniel Cooney, a former correspondent for The Associated Press, joined a research team in the Amazon, looking at the successes and challenges of a REDD+ pilot project. The result is a series of nine stories and interviews, six videos and dozens of photographs. http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp? llr=lkucu6dab&et=1105660154107&s=2041&e=001SnRwIKbGXUuDeiGjDCgc SipLOOTbFN_XVKAGxrOeSKDTPEEnUeuyuhs1EGjYzU5uqh3_gW19DDTfU G61RZfZukR26DaLz5SAFIczQ2YnclaB65oD9711inqyTR5fRsPYJMYtI3SYfNVdzRMorXuDw== To download the second edition of FOSSGIS-Brasil, just go to the following link: http://fossgisbrasil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/downloadmonitor/download.php?id=2 ************************************************ SOUTHEM JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES:

SOUTHEM KORERO EARTH ON THE EDGE 28 June-7 July 2011. Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet. Melbourne, Australia. http://www.iugg2011.com/ BOLIVIAN WOOD MEETING 1 July 2011. Sixth Wood Business Meeting, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Camera Forestal de Bolivia. rueda.negocios@cfb.org.bo INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT MASTERS 4 July 2011. Masters in International Environment. Instituto Internacional de Formacion Ambiental. A distance learning course. becas@fondoverde.org.es BREEDING AND GENETIC RESOURCES OF FIVE-NEEDLE PINES 15-25 Aug 2011. 4th Conference on the Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-Needle Pines. Tomsk, Russia. IUFRO 2.02.15, Contact: John King, Email: John.King(at)gov.bc.ca. http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20215/. NZ FOREST INDUSTRY 2011

5-7 September 2011. Forest Industry 2011. Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.forestevents.co.nz/ ARGENTINA FOREST FAIR 22-25 September 2011. Feria Forestal Argentina. Posadas, Misiones. The 2010 event had more than 400 exhibitors and 120,000 visitors with recorded sales of Argentine$22 million. http://www.feriaforestal.com.ar FORESTRY EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA 18 and 20 October 2011. 3rd Workshop on Forestry Education in Latin America (III Taller sobre Educacin Forestal en Latinoamrica), in the framework of the 5th Latin American Forestry Congress (V Congreso Forestal Latinoamericano) from 18-21 October. Lima, Peru. Latin American Network for Forestry Education (RELAFOR) in cooperation with the IUFRO Task Force on Education in Forest Science. Contact: Osvaldo Encinas, oencinas(at)ula.ve; relafor(at)gmail.com http://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/education-forest-science/ FORESTS, GOVERNMENTS AND FOREST RIGHTS 26-28 October 2011. VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Derecho ForestalAmbiental "Bosques, Gobernanza y Derecho Forestal". San Jos, Costa Rica. IUFRO 9.06.01, Contact: Lucia Ruiz, lruiz(at)cima.org.pe; Vivian Wyllins, congresoforestalcr(at)abogados.or.cr http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/90601/ http://web.catie.ac.cr/congreso_forestal/derecho_home.htm FOREST VEGETATION MANAGEMENT 7-11 November 2011. Forest Vegetation Management for Timber and Nontimber Values. Valdivia, Chile. IUFRO 1.01.04, http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/10104/. Contact: Euan Mason, euan.mason(at)canterbury.ac.nz http://www.treesandstars.com/vmc7/ AUSTIMBER 2012 29-31 March 2012. AusTimber 2012. Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia. http://www.austimber2012.com.au/ 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/

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