SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal Online news briefs SOUTHEM Online - Issue 276 8 December

r 2011 Hi and Hola - Welcome to this edition of Southem Online. This edition is pretty much all about whether the forest industry will reach its manufacturing potential in the southern hemisphere. A report from climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, argues for sustainable forestry developments.. 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. SOUTHERN FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GIS CONFERENCE Warnell Outreach Workshops & Conferences presents the Eighth Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference. The 8th SOFOR GIS Conference will encompass topics related to the use of GIS and other geospatial technologies in forestry and natural resource management. Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference. December 11-13, 2011, Athens, Georgia. http://www.soforgis.net/2011/ **************************************** 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.. ************************************************ ARGENTINA HAS CAPACITY TO ABSORB $4B IN FOREST INVESTMENTS Argentina has the capacity to absorb $4,000 million in forest investments in coming years, according to the countrys forest owners. The AFOA says the sector requires a law for the promotion of industrial uses of its growing plantation forest resources. The statement says after an annual private-public sector meeting analysing prospects for 2012. The president of Afoa, Jorge Acne, says there was a need for policy to be developed to help the forest sector achieve its potential to add value. Industry growth would have a great impact on regional economies, generating employment and sustainable development. MINISTER CLAIMS ARGENTINA STRONGER IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS Meanwhile, in Argentina, the Minister of Production, Dbora Giorgi, has highlighted the international impact from the public and private debt crisis in contrast to Argentina, where industrial investment secures a productive model and increases competitiveness, FAIMA reported. Giorgi said Argentina was very well placed in regards to the international crisis that "here we are with new ideas for new problems, well-placed for what we are going to make." She was speaking at the opening of a new cigarette-making outfit. MANUFACTURING RESULTS CONFIRM NEW ZEALAND WOOD INDUSTRYS PROBLEM Raw logs will continue to be shipped overseas unprocessed unless there is serious attention paid by the government to the wood processing industry, a union for workers in the sector says. The Economic Survey of Manufacturing reports a 0.7 per cent decline in the volume of wood and paper product manufacturing sales in the September 2011 quarter. The sector has declined five out of the past eight quarters. FIRST Union General Secretary Robert Reid said that exporters of raw logs were making money, but many value-added wood processors were downsizing or being put out of business. We face the real risk that New Zealand will be unable to fully capitalise on the processing side of one of our largest industries forestry. NEW SAWMILL CLOSURE ADDS TO GROWING LIST OF NZ WOOD SECTOR FAILURES Meanwhile, the union for wood processing workers is asking how many more mills will close before the New Zealand Government admits there is a crisis. Eurocell Timber in Upper Hutt has announced it is shutting down its mill, with the loss of up to 40 jobs, saying that a lack of pick up from the Christchurch rebuild, trouble sourcing affordable logs, a weak housing sector and competition from exporters of raw logs were factors in its closure. For a number of years now, wood production has been declining, sawmills closing and workers have been losing their jobs, said Robert Reid, General Secretary of FIRST Union. We estimate 1,200 jobs had been lost since 2008 in the wood processing industry, but that figure could be well under half the real amount when attrition and unreported job losses are taken into account.

AUSTRALIAN PMs TASKFORCE RENEWS FOCUS ON MANUFACTURING In Australia, the Prime Minister's Taskforce on Manufacturing held its first meeting in Canberra, releasing a communiqu acknowledging that manufacturing employs nearly one million Australians and generates over 34 per cent of Australia's merchandise export income. The communiqu sets-out areas requiring attention such as regulatory barriers, investment in innovation and maximising opportunities in Asia, the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) reports. AFPA HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES FACING FOREST INDUSTRY Meanwhile, separately to the Prime Minister's process, AFPA says it has lodged a submission to the Federal Opposition's manufacturing review outlining the challenges facing the forest industry, including: the high dollar, high input costs and the inadequate recent investment in resources due to the long-term nature of forestry. The submission discusses productivity improvements, upgrading skills, minimising sovereign risk and reducing red tape. AFPA also intends to contribute to the Prime Minister's Taskforce on Manufacturing once the process for consultation is further clarified. PLEA FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Bob Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa, has highlighted the scientific case for sustainable forest management. Citing a recent study (Yude et al, A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the Worlds Forests Science, August 2011), he noted that forests could potentially absorb nearly onequarter of total carbon emissions from human activity, currently estimated at nine petagrams per year, exceeding the targets of the Kyoto Protocol. His keynote address was made at the fifth Forest Day, which took place in Durban, South Africa, in parallel with the UN Durban Climate Change Conference. GREEN LIGHT FOR DIVISIVE BRAZILIAN FORESTRY BILL Brazils new divisive Forest Code threatens the countrys ability to meet targets on curbing greenhouse emissions, the BBC has reported. Quoting former environment minister Marina Silva, talking on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in South Africa, the report notes the new Forest Code passed by the Senate will reduce the size of bugger zones around rivers, and weaken the amount of land that owners must leave forested. Past breaches will not be punished if perpetrators agree to a plan of ecological restoration. "The approved law will make it difficult - and by a lot - for Brazil to keep their emission targets," Ms Silva is quoted as saying. SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE VIDEOS ISSUES FACING GOVERNMENTS AT COP17, DURBAN Press briefing from COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, on issues facing governments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dQEMDffwE&feature=player_embedded ************************************************ ARTICLES OF INTEREST: Gabriela S. Lucero; Pablo H. Pizzuolo y Huberto Lucero. Enfermedades de las

salicceas: agentes de dao, impacto y estrategias de manejo. (Willow illnesses: agents of damage, impact and management strategies). Ctedra de Fitopatologa- Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias- UNCuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. www.inta.gov.ar/bariloche/info/catalog/insectos_seriemip.html J.C. Ellis. A Log Volume Formula for Exporters. NZ Journal of Forestry, Volume 56, Issue 3, 2011. Pages: 2026. http://www.nzjf.org/abstract.php?volume_issue=j56_3&first_page=20 Penny Fisher, Graham Nugent, David Morgan, Bruce Warburton, Phil Cowan and Janine Duckworth. Possum Management Using Aerial 1080 Not New, Definitely Improved. New Zealand Journal of Forestry (2011) 56(3): 58. http://www.nzjf.org/abstract.php?volume_issue=j56_3&first_page=5 Watt, M. S., Palmer, D. J., & Bulman, L. S. Predicting the severity of Dothistroma needle blight on Pinus radiata under future climate in New Zealand. NZ Journal of Forestry Science - Volume 41 (2011). http://www.scionresearch.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/36130/NZJFS412011207 _215_WATT.pdf ************************************************ SOUTHEM KORERO SUSTAINING THE FUTURE 12-16 December 2011. Sustaining Our Future: understanding and living with uncertainty. Perth WA, Australia http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/ SUSTAINABLE FOREST INDUSTRY REPORT 13 December 2011. Report of an inquiry into sustainable forest industry development in Portugal will be delivered at a congress. http://www.centropinus.org/img/ficheiros/file/CongressoAIFF-13Dez11_Programa.pdf LATIN AMERICAN FOREST INDUSTRY CONFERENCE 26, 27 & 28 March 2012. 2 nd Conferencia de Industria Florestal Latino Americana. Second Latin American Forest Industry Conference. Hotel Transamerica, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil. www.latinaforestconference.com AUSTIMBER 2012 29-31 March 2012. AusTimber 2012. Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia. http://www.austimber2012.com.au/ ACCURACY 2012 International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA). The Tenth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. July 10-13, 2012. Florianpolis, SC Brazil http://2012.spatial-accuracy.org/

FORESTS AND FOREST PRODUCTS 8-13 July 2012. International Conference on Forests and Forest Products Actual and Future. Lisboa, Portugal. Includes Willows and Poplars and Wood Quality. For more information: http://www.iufro2012.org/nm_quemsomos.php?id=37 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/division8/80000/80100/80102/activities/ 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.