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Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry
www.daff.gov.au
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry assist our forestry industry to grow, improve and capitalise on new opportunities while protecting the environment and contributing to the prosperity and quality of life in rural and regional Australia. While forests will continue to provide sustainably produced wood, it will increasingly provide opportunities to help reduce the level of greenhouse gases, control salinity and improve biodiversity conservation.

Agroforestry News
http://www.agroforestrynews.com.au/
Agroforestry News provides practical and up-to-date information on all aspects of agroforestry and farm forestry. Agroforestry News is owned and managed by a community group representing the interests of farmers who grow trees.

Southern Rivers CMA
www.southern.cma.nsw.gov.au/
The Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority plays a vital role in the management of south coast catchments from Stanwell Park in the North to the Victorian border, including the Snowy River. The Authority ensures the protection and sustainable development of land, vegetation and water resources within the catchment.

Australian Forest Growers
http://www.afg.asn.au/about.html
The national association representing and promoting private forestry and commercial tree growing interests in Australia.

Plantations 2020
http://www.plantations2020.com.au/
Plantations for Australia: The 2020 Vision is a strategic partnership between the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments and the plantation timber growing and processing industry. The overarching principle of the Plantations 2020 Vision strategy is to enhance regional wealth creation and international competitiveness through a sustainable increase in Australia's plantation resources, based on a national target of trebling the area of commercial tree crops by 2020.

Four brief facts sheets relating to plantations and:

Water
Carbon
MIS; and
Investment/employment

are now available on the Plantations 2020 website as PDFs at http://www.plantations2020.com.au/reports/index.html

Department of Primary Industries
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/forests
NSW Department of Primary Industries acts in partnership with industry and other public sector organisations to foster profitable and sustainable development of primary industries in New South Wales.

Australian Timber Naturally
http://www.australiantimbernaturally.com.au
Australian Timber Naturally is a specialist supplier of unique Australian hardwood timbers and timber slabs. Their core business is the supply of magnificent hardwood timbers and timber slab piece's that can beautify any building, home or office. Australian Timber Naturally utilise logs from firewood piles, arborists tree removal jobs, council tree removal for roads and other developments, dangerous trees removal and old Red Gum sleeper cutter dump sites where large logs have been left to rot away. They are specialist's in sourcing and supply of Red Gum, Ironbark, Blackbutt and other hardwood timbers as well as Red Gum burls from salvage job sites.

Forest Stewardship Council
www.fsc-info.org
To help consumers identify which retailers are stocking FSC accredited furniture and to check whether timber furniture has been approved by the FSC, shoppers should look for a certification number which can be verified on the FSC web site.

Approximately 9% of all timber imported into Australia has come from an illegal logging operation.

Biomass as energy New Zealand
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0803/S00040.htm

Biofuels and CSIRO
http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/BBE/07-178sum.html
http://www.aussmc.org/Biofuel_future.php
http://www.csiro.au/news/newsletters/Energy/0108_energy/HTML/biofuels.htm

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