SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal Online news briefs SOUTHEM Online - Issue 270 11 August

t 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. REMSOFT WORLD-LEADING SOFTWARE Remsoft creates the world's leading software for sustainable spatial forest management planning. For 15 years, our software suite has enabled our clients to meet objectives while ensuring the viability of the world's forests and related ecosystems. For more information please click to info@remsoft.com or www.remsoft.com Recent Remsoft headlines and links include the following: REMSOFTS ANDREA FUENEKES NAMED RBC http://www.youtube.com/user/RemsoftInc? blend=1&ob=5#p/a/u/0/Ish8ZkkD8NM REMSOFT USERA GROUP CONFERENCE AGENDA POSTED

Sandi MacKinnon writes: We have a fantastic line up of speakers. This is the ONLY event that focuses on natural resources planning, optimization, and sustainability. We welcome anyone who would like to attend! http://remsoft.com/events.php?id=154 ANALYTICS MAGAZINE FEATURES REMSOFT AGING INFRASTRUCTURE ARTICLE ON THE NEED FOR OPTIMIZATION http://www.remsoft.com/news.php?id=118 REMSOFT FEATURED IN A FINANCIAL TIMES INTERVIEW http://www.remsoft.com/news.php?id=114 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 PODCAST: PREPARING FOR COP17 LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Richard Hayes of EITG discusses what might or might not come out of the Durban COP17 talks on the road to tackling climate change. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=47&id=90 **************************************** 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.

************************************************ WOOD ENERGY TRADE SET TO GO GLOBAL Wood for use in energy is about to become a globally traded product for the first, according to the recently released UNECE/FAOs Forest Products Annual Market Review 2010-2011. The annual review devoted a section to the subject under the title Wood energy markets continue to grow. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1347&Itemid=1 ************************************************ COP17 TALKS IN SOUTH AFRICA 'ON TRACK' About 20,000 people are expected to travel to South Africa at the end of November to attend the next round of climate changes talks in Durban. Government Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, reporting on South Africas level of preparedness on COP17/CMP7, said in a statement that the core theme of the Conference was Working together: Saving tomorrow today. This theme not only linked with government theme of Working together, we can do more but it emphasised that a positive climate outcome was not only the responsibility of South Africa but all other Parties to the UNFCCC. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1345&Itemid=1 ************************************************ EUCALYPT SPECIES RECEIVES A BOOST IN CHILE A recent meeting in Chile to discuss the current market for Eucalyptus nitens and the potential in Chile is reported to have been a firm success. The meeting was organised in conjunction with Corma, the Chilean wood products sector body, and Carolina Massai is reported as saying the meeting would have important outcomes for the species, particularly for the small and medium producers. ************************************************ BUSINESS GROUPS JOIN CHORUS OPPOSING TAS FORESTRY DEAL An inter-governmental agreement in Australia aimed at saving the Tasmanian forestry industry is meeting opposition in industry and business groups. The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) has been joined by the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) and Timber Communities Australia (TCA), which are reported to have added to the growing choir of discontent over the agreement. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1343&Itemid=1 ************************************************ DROP IN FOREST PRODUCT SALES IMPACTS CMPCS Q2 EARNINGS

After being pushed upwards by historically high pulp prices in the first quarter, the second quarter saw Chile forest industry group CMPCs result retreat in the second quarter. Total revenues of US$1,199 million during the quarter were 3% lower than in Q1 2011. Net income was US$170 million, or 19% more than in the previous quarter but this was mostly due to lower expenses on profit taxes. Pulp, papers and paper products divisions decreased their before tax and interest earnings, due to lower sales. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1341&Itemid=1 ************************************************ RECORD OVER-HARVEST OF INDIGENOUS TIMBER RESULTS IN FINE New Zealands Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) says a recent fine imposed over the illegal harvesting of indigenous timbers result from the largest recorded over-harvest of indigenous timber in New Zealand since 1993. http://www.southem.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1339&Itemid=1 ************************************************ WALL OF WOOD LOOMS FOR KYOTO FORESTS Discussions about linking the carbon pricing systems in Australia and New Zealand will have to resolve what instruments can be traded between the two neighbours across the Tasman Sea, says Carbon Monitor. The report says the other gorilla in the room is that around 2020, New Zealands harvest of Kyoto Forest will create the so-called wall of wood with the potential to turn the forest industry into one of the single largest emitters. WA COMMUNITIES CALLED ON TO SUPPORT AUST CARBON PRICING Meanwhile, churches, community groups, aid organisations, unions, business and environmental groups in Western Australia have united in support of a price on carbon pollution. The organisations have released the statement below to provide an opportunity for West Australians who support a price on carbon pollution to have their views heard. http://www.southem.com/content/view/36/33/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1337&Itemid=2 ************************************************ FUJI XEROX AUSTRALIA CEASES PROCUREMENT FROM ASIA PACIFIC RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (APRIL) Fuji Xerox has cut ties with a big paper manufacturer accused of wrongfully logging Indonesian rainforests. Fuji Xerox Australia is reported to have announced will no longer be doing business with Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL), which owns one of the world's largest paper mills. Fuji Xerox Australias Managing Director, Nick Kugenthiran, indicated a lack of progress on APRILs led to the decision.

http://www.southem.com/content/view/36/33/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1335&Itemid=2 ************************************************ IFC SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY MANAGEMENT IN BOLIVIA The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a US$6 million loan and advisory services to veneer and plywood producer SLV Bolivia to support a business model that sources wood from sustainably managed natural forests and strengthens indigenous community enterprises. http://www.southem.com/content/view/36/33/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1333&Itemid=2 ************************************************ FORESTS NSW TO GO UNDER GREEN MICROSCOPE Government forest managers in the Australian state of New South Wales are in for some pointed questions the Greens in budget hearings this October. Greens candidate Susie Russell is a strong advocate for greater transparency when it comes to forestry operations and fears that if government intervention does not happen soon, NSW State Forests will become degraded wood chip plantations, the Manning River Times reported. http://www.southem.com/content/view/36/33/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1331&Itemid=2 FORESTS NSW TO HARVEST STATE FOREST NEW COFFS HARBOUR Meanwhile, Forestry NSW has been advising neighbours of Boambee State Forest south of Coffs Harbour that a timber harvesting operation could begin in September. This is a normal and legal harvesting operation which will supply timber to meet the needs of local sawmills and ultimately the people of New South Wales, said Forests NSW North East Region manager Craig Busby said in a statement. http://www.southem.com/content/view/36/33/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1329&Itemid=2 ************************************************ OCTOBER DEADLINE FOR SAS COP 17 NEGOTIATION STANCE Meanwhile, Engineering News report South Africas Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa as saying that South Africas negotiating position for the for the Durban climate change talks would be submitted for Cabinet approval in October. This was one of three key priorities the South African delegation was focusing on in the build-up to the gathering. *********************************************** UNUSUAL SIGHTING OF STYGIAN OWL AT REGUA A post from REGUA (Reserva Ecolgica de Guapiau), which protects one of

the last stands of tropical rainforest left in the severely depleted Atlantic Rainforest, or Mata Atlntica, in Brazil, says birding in July ended with a huge bang, when on the evening of the 31st lodge manager Helen Cavilla, volunteer Duncan Wilson and lodge guest Mikael Kll went out to the wetland looking for Scissor-tailed Nightjars and came face to face with a stonking Stygian Owl Mikael managed to take incredible images while the bird showed down to 5 metres! This is just the third record for Rio de Janeiro state. http://www.regua.co.uk/index.html *********************************************** SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE VIDEOS MILL CRITICAL TO TASMANIAN TIMBER INDUSTRY Barry Chipman from Timber Communities Australia has echoed the industry's anxiety about the sale of the Triabunna mill on Tasmania's east coast. The fears were raised after the sale of the Gunns woodchip mill at Triabunna to a Tasmanian consortium, headed by a local transport operator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYndVNlpjD8 JET SAMBA - JAZZ PIANO IMPROVISATION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGu7oS-Peo ************************************************ ARTICLES OF INTEREST: FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration: case studies from the drylands of Latin America. This book published by IUCN presents the results of an international research project, which was designed explicitly to examine application of the forest landscape restoration (FLR) approach to dryland forest ecosystems in Latin America. Contact Natalia Tejedor Garavito, ntejedor(at)bournemouth.ac.uk, for more information. (IUFRO) http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/? 7698/Principles-and-practice-of-forest-landscape-restoration--case-studiesfrom-the-drylands-of-Latin-America WATER USE AND RADIATA PINE LOG PRODUCTION Leon Bren, Stephen Elms and John Costenaro. How much water is needed to produce a cubic metre of radiata pine log? 2011 Vol74(2) Page 108. Australian Forestry Journal. http://www.forestry.org.au/ifa/c/c3-ifa.asp?ID=1846 ************************************************ SOUTHEM JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES:

ASIA-PACIFIC REGION REP FOR ECOSYLVA LIMITED The UK-based Soil Association Woodmark promotes responsible forest management practices and delivers forest certification to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards world wide. The company seeks applications for new positions in the Asia Pacific Region. Closes 22 August. For more information, email: wm@soilassociation.org FORESTRY AND LAND USE COORDINATOR In New Zealand, John Turkington Limited (JTL), based in Marton, Wanganui is advertising to hire a Forestry and Land Use Coordinator in a new role as the company is planning for significant and on-going growth. Email: John.Turkington@xtra.co.nz ************************************************ SOUTHEM KORERO IUFRO TREE BIOTECHNOLOGY 2011 IN BRAZIL The conference held in Arraial d'Ajuda, Bahia, Brazil, 26 June-7 July 2011 highlighted the current advances in forest tree genetics, physiology, stress response, molecular breeding, in vitro and propagation technologies, wood development, genomics technologies and genetically modified (GM) trees. See details at: http://www.treebiotech2011.com/ 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/ 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/ SECOND ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY WEEK 7-11 November 2011 New Challenges, New Opportunities. Beijing, China. FAO and its partners are inviting the forestry sector to come together at the second Asia-Pacific Forestry Week, expected to be the largest and the most important forestry-related event in the region in 2011. The event will bring together some 1500-2000 participants from governments, NGOs, research institutions, regional and international networks, UN agencies and the private sector. High-level forestry officials from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will attend the event. It will provide a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders and forest managers to share perspectives and seek solutions to the most challenging issues facing forests and forestry today. For more information, please contact Mr. Patrick Durst (Senior Forestry Officer) FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific; Email: AP-Forestry-Week@fao.org www.fao.org/forestry/ap-forestry-week/en/ SUSTAINING THE FUTURE 12-16 December 2011. Sustaining Our Future: understanding and living with uncertainty. Perth WA, Australia http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/ AUSTIMBER 2012 29-31 March 2012. AusTimber 2012. Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia. http://www.austimber2012.com.au/ FOUR DEGREES OR MORE? 12-14 July 2012. Four Degrees or More? Australia in a Hot World. Melbourne, Australia. weblink: http://www.fourdegrees2011.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/division-

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