[Forest-list] Southem Online 287 - 6 September 2012

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FORESTLAND INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
Hold the Date! The University of Georgia Center for Forest Business
announces its 2013 Forestland Investment Conference, February 27 through
March 1, 2013 at the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida USA. 
Key North American and International forestland analysts and investors plan
to attend.
For details please contact:
Bob Izlar, + 1.706.542.6819, bizlar at warnell.uga.edu 

More information soon on our website:
http://www.ugacfb.com/ 

LASER TECHNOLOGY, INC. DARES ALL ARCPAD USERS  TAKE THE LaserGIS CHALLENGE
Laser Technology, Inc. (LTI), the designer and manufacturer of the most
popular line of mapping lasers and rangefinders, is daring all ArcPad® users
to take a GIS mobile mapping challenge. This new campaign was officially
announced at the opening day of Esris User Conference, July 25th 2012. The
challenge is to test out an LTI TruPulse® 360 mapping laser and the
LaserGIS® ArcPad® extension completely risk free without any upfront costs
or obligation. This campaign is designed to persuade GIS professionals to
simply "try" something that will prove to save time and money and offer an
immediate ROI. Find out more at:
http://www.lasertech.com/Laser-Technology-Dares-All-ArcPad-Users-to-Take-the
-LaserGIS-Challenge.aspx 

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SAFCOLS INVESTMENT PROSPECTS IN SAWMILLING REVIEWED 
South African state-owned forestry company Safcol may make a return to
sawmilling investment and extend its Southern Africa business. Shareholding
Minister for Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba has ruled out privatisation,
Engineering News reports. The move is part of a review by Stellenbosch
University looking at the economic impact of allowing Safcol to pursue a
strategy of vertical integration, and the environmental and economic impacts
from such a move.

GUNNS STRUGGLES AS INVESTORS THINNING OUT
Singapore-based Richard Chardler Corporation has no interest in picking up
struggling Australian timber giant Gunns Ltd, a spokesman told Southem
Online.  Gunns has hit rock bottom with a 2012 preliminary final result at a
net loss after tax for the year ended 30 June 2012 of A$903.9 million.  The
forestry assets were reduced in value by A$749.2 million. New Zealand
billionaire Richard Chandlers investment company earlier this year walked
away from a deal with Gunns.

MASISA PLACES BONDS
Chile-based board-maker Masisa has placed on the market two sets of bonds
for a total of 2,000,000 UF in an operation considered successful by the
company and consultants agents BCI Asesores Financieros S.A and Scotiabank
Chile. According to the company, this operation recorded a 100% on the
placed amount increases. (Note: Unidad de Fomento (UF) is a Unit of account
that is used in Chile making the value about US$9.4 million.)

LATAM LOSING FOREST THE SIZE OF A SMALL COUNTRY
Latin America lost forest the size of a small country in the period from
2001 to 2010. A new study finds 260,000 square kilometres of forest was lost
during the period.  The new study is the first to assess both net forest
loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America,
Mongamay.com reported. Rhett A. Butler wrote that the study, published in
the journal Biotropica by researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and
other institutions, analyzes change in vegetation cover across several
biomes, and finds largest gains in woody vegetation area occurred in desert
vegetation and shrublands. NOTE: The land area of Uruguay is 173,620 square
kilometres

ABORIGINES SUPPORT INDUSTRY OF FORESTRY TALKS WALKOUT
Tasmanian Aborigines have thrown their support behind industry groups who
have pulled out of the forestry peace talks, The Australian newspaper has
reported. The Forest Industry Association of Tasmania and Australian Forest
Products Association said at the weekend they would boycott the talks unless
the State Government guaranteed state forests would still be managed by
Forestry Tasmania. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre said yesterday it would
follow the associations' lead and abandon the peace talks.

YORK TIMBER EXPECTS EARNINGS BOOST
South Africas York Timber Holdings has reported that it expected its
headline earnings per share in the year ended June 2012 to between 41c and
43c from 16c in the same period a year ago. Earnings per share are expected
to also be between 41c and 43c compared to 12c previously. The full year
results are expected before September 30, fnet.com reported.

NEW JOHN DEERE FACTORIES IN BRAZIL IN CHINA ADD TO COSTS
Costs from new factories in Brazil and China are expected to impact
short-term results, John Deere & Company has said in its Q3 2012 report.
Construction and forestry net sales were up 23% in the quarter, operating
profit was a US$113 million, for the quarter CNS had a 7% operating margin,
the largest sector underlying CNS margins is investments and growth. Susan
Karlix - manager, investor communications, said during a presentation that
the division has two new factories growing up in Brazil and one in China
adding additional research and development cost and selling and
administrative and general expense. 

SOCIAL MEDIA, ECONOMY FORCE NORSKES NZ NEWSPRINT MILL CUTS
The impact of economic conditions and the rise of digital media are behind
Norways Norske Skog plan to halve newsprint production at its Kawerau mill
in New Zealand. Dwindling domestic and offshore sales have prompted Norske
Skog Tasman to plan for a cut in annual production from 300,000 tonnes to
150,000 tonnes.  The NZ companys general manager, Peter McCarty, is quoted
as saying the newsprint industry faced challenges due to general economic
conditions and increasing competition the print media is facing from
electronic media.

EUCALYPT REPLACEMENT FOR ASBESTOS VIABLE - RESEARCHER
Research in Brazil shows that eucalypt fibres can replace the asbestos, the
non-renewable product blamed for causing health problems. The thesis of the
Eng. Gustavo Henrique Denzin Tonoli, currently Professor at Universidade
Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais. demonstrates eucalypts can replace asbestos
in the manufacture of cement, with minor costs and using a renewable
material. Source: Revista Exame - Panel Florestal

NZ WOOD PROCESSORS CONCERN OVER AUST ILLEGAL LOG LAW
Jon Tanner, of the New Zealand Wood Processors Association, says even though
his members support a proposed Australian law to stop illegally-logged
timber, ABC has reported. Timber exporting countries, including Indonesia
and Papua New Guinea, say a proposed law to stop illegally-logged timber
from being imported into Australia will have a devastating impact on trade.
But Jon Tanner says: "At the moment, we have no idea to what extent we have
to prove legality, and proving legality is a difficult thing."

PARAGUAY PLANS 450,000 HA REFORESTATION
Paraguays National Forest Institute (Infona) highlighted plans to reforest
some 450,000 hectares within a period of 15 years for supply the internal
market for wood energy and commercial processing. Ruben Segovia, President
of the Infona, said that the implementation of the project is important
because currently only 60,000 hectares of reforestation are recorded and
"wood is a material that is needed a lot", Lignum reported.

GOAL POSTS SHIFT ON COUNTRIES ACCOUNTING FOR EMISSION LEVELS
Countries themselves will decide how to set the reference emission levels
(RELs) to be used as benchmarks to assess how they perform, says a report
Forests and Climate Changer After Durban produced by the FAO Regional
Office for Asia and the Pacific and RECOFTC and CoDe REDD Philippines. The
report says there was some agreement in Durban on how carbon account systems
should be set up for REDD+, however the move for countries to assess their
own performance differs from the way similar land use and forestry
accounting rules were set up in 1997. 

FORMALDEHYDE EMISSIONS FOCUS OF ARGENTINE SUBMISSIONS
In Argentina, research agency INTI, through its wood furniture centre, has
launched a laboratory to develop greater control of formaldehyde emission,
the volatile chemical compound used in the manufacture of boards and wood
products. In addition, INTI signed an agreement with Spains Technological
Institute of furniture, wood, packaging (AIDIMA in Spanish), which will
provide technological support for carrying out such checks. One aspect of
the study is to provide better protection for workers.

NZ WASP FIND BOOST FOR RESEARCH ON EUCALYPT ATTACK BEETLE 
Researchers in New Zealand are going a step further towards using a
biological control agent to combat a beetle effectively preventing the
expansion of eucalypt plantations in the country. Scientists at Scion in
Rotorua have made a breakthrough in identifying a wasp able to attack the
larvae of Paropsine beetles, originally from Australia.  Funding has now
come from companies, industry groups and public sources for further tests,
including one to find another, even more robust, predator. (Source: Forest
Health News 227, Scion)

ARGENTINA MISSION SCANDINAVIA TO PROMOTE FORESTRY INVESTMENT 
The Argentine forest industry is undertaking an investment, development and
commercial promotion mission to Scandinavia this month. The mission will
visit Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway from 17 to
September 22. This mission will seek to enhance public-private cooperation
with the Nordic countries forest industry sector, in order to develop
investment projects and technology transfer, and exploit associated
commercial alternatives that favour the development of Argentinas forestry
production.

SOUTH AFRICAS WATER BILL DEEPENING BY THE YEAR
South Africas capital requirement for the water sector has increased to
R670-billion over the next ten years, up from an initial estimate of
R573-billion earlier this year, Engineering News reported. Water and
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa published the second National
Water Resources Strategy (NWRS2) for comment. Its reported that the funding
gap stood at R338-billion over this period, but the Minister indicated that
the bill could be lowered significantly by improving water management and
governance as laid out in the new water resource plan.

AUST YOUTH AMBASSADORS AT WORK IN ASIA PACIFIC FORESTS
This year marks the fifth consecutive year that FAOs Regional Office for
Asia and the Pacific and the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development
Programm have worked together to provide skilled young Australians the
opportunity to gain experience in work on forestry projects in the region,
TigerPaper, Forest News reported.

SOUTHEM VIDEOS

SOUTHEM REFERENCES

Cárcamo, C.N. Herrera, M.A. Aranda, F.D. Donoso, P.J. Financial evaluation
of management in secondary forests of canelo (Drimys winteri) in the coastal
range of Valdivia, Chile. Evaluación de la rentabilidad del manejo en
bosques secundarios de canelo (Drimys winteri) en la Cordillera de la costa
de Valdivia, Chile. Bosque, Vol. 31, Nº3, 209-218, 2010.
http://repositoriodigital.uct.cl:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/841

Influence of blue stain on density and dimensional stability of Pinus
sylvestris timber. Influencia del azulado (Mancha Azul) en la densidad y
estabilidad dimensional de la madera de Pinus sylvestris. Rey-Prieto, A.
Riesco-Muñoz, G. Journal Maderas: Ciencia y Technologia 2012 Vol. 14 No. 1
pp. 115-125 ISSN 0717-3644
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0718-221X&lng=en&nrm=i
so

Baum, T. Thompson, L. ;  Ghorbani, K. A Complex Dielectric Mixing Law Model
for Forest Fire Ash Particulates. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
IEEE. Date of Publication: Sept. 2012. Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., R.
Melbourne Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Volume: 9 , Issue: 5
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6155635&url=http%3A%2F
%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fstamp%2Fstamp.jsp%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D6155635

South Asian Forests and Forestry to 2020, subregional report of the Second
Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study. RAP Publication 2012/10.
Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1964e/i1964e00.htm

Making Forestry Work for the Poor  Assessment of the contribution of
forestry poverty alleviation in Asia and the Pacific. RAP Publication
2012/06. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. 

Williams, A., & Norton, D. A. Estimating carbon stocks in stands of
Podocarpus cunninghamii in the eastern South Island high country of New
Zealand. NZ Journal of Forestry Science. Published Online - 07/02/2012. 
http://www.scionresearch.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/36885/NZJFS42201229
_38_WILLIAMS.pdf

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SOUTHEM OPPORTUNITIES

SOUTHEM KORERO

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ON FOREST FARMS
Fundación Hábitat y Desarrollo Habitat Foundation and Development, Concordia
Agricultural Experimental Station of INTA, and the company Forestal
Argentina are holding the second seminar on biodiversity conservation in
forest farms.  During the same outstanding professionals associated with
this subject will present the conclusions of experiences that seek to
contribute to the conservation of the flora and fauna in productive forest
landscapes. This initiative will be an excellent opportunity to share
concerns, clarify doubts, positions and meet different actors linked with
sustainable forest management, in an atmosphere of cordial exchange of ideas
under the dynamics of a workshop. For more information, go to:
Gustavo Aparicio actividades at habitatydesarrollo.org.ar 
Diana Diaz, ddiaz at correo.inta.gov.ar 

LEGAL ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN FOREST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
19-21 September, 2012 IUFRO Division 9: Forest Policy and Economics.
Research Group 9.06.00 (former 6.13.00): Forest Law and Environmental
Legislation. International Symposium, Republic of Belarus 2012. 14th
International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European Forest Sustainable
Development. Minsk, Republic of Belarus. First Announcement and Call for
Papers. 
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/

Contact Peter HERBST, e-mail: HP at net4you.at
or
Vitalie GULCA, email: vitalie.gulca at gmail.com or vitaliegulca at yahoo.com 

NZ FORESTRY AWARDS
20 September 2012  New Zealand Forest Industry Training Awards (FITEC).
Rotorua Energy Events Centre. 6 pm.
http://www.fitec.org.nz/Awards/

ECOSOCIEDAD SOCIAL AND ENVIORNMENTAL FORESTRY ISSUES
3-5 October 2012. Ecosociedad 2012. Social and environmental issues arising
from the forest-rural-urban relationship, with special reference to the
South of Argentina and Chile. Contact Lic. Carla Nowak www.ciefap.org.ar
www.ecosociedad.ciefap.org.ar

IMPROVING LIVES WITH POPLARS AND WILLOWS - PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT
 24th Session of the International Poplar Commission and 46th Executive
Committee Meeting. Improving Lives with Poplars and Willows @ Dehradun,
India, 8-12 October 2012.
http://www.fao.org/forestry/ipc2012/en/

II CONGRESO BOLIVIANO DE BOTÁNICA/BOLIVIAN BOTANY CONGRESS
11-13 October 2012. The Second Bolivian Botany Congress. La Paz, Bolivia.
This important Congress is organised by the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia,
Instituto de Ecología and Carrera de Biología de la Universidad Mayor de San
Andrés in collaboration with the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in
Cochabamba, Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca in Sucre,
Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Cobija y la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel
René Moreno in Santa Cruz.
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/iicongresobotanicabolivia2012/

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
5-12 November 2012. Biannual IUFRO Forest Landscape Ecology Conference:
Sustaining Humans and Forests in Changing Landscapes: Forests, Society and
Global Change. Concepción, 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-8/80000/80100/80102/activiti
es/

THIRD IUFRO LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS
IUFRO and CATIE are organizing IUFROLAT 2013: the Third IUFRO Latin American
Congress; San José, Costa Rica; 12-15 June 2013. Details tba.

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/

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