Exhilarating is the word that best sums up the experiences of the 4,300 delegates who attended the 26th International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) World Congress in June and experienced 3,500 presentations, 200 sessions,…
Montigny, the largest privately owned and integrated timber company in Southern Africa, has augmented its in-house harvesting team by adding a Ponsse Ergo harvester and a dual-purpose Buffalo forwarder-skidder. The mechanisation drive for safety and…
Dr Benice Sivparsad is leaving the Institute for Commercial Forestry Research (ICFR) at the end of the year to join the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) School of Agriculture, Earth, and Environmental Sciences. Benice Sivparsad, a…
Forestry South Africa (FSA) reports that there are over 25,000 small-scale timber growers, with the majority being subsistence farmers supported by forestry cooperatives and social development initiatives of large corporations. The commercial tree species include…
Prof Mary Scholes and her team at the Sappi Chair in Climate Change and Plantation Sustainability at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) are pioneering research and capacity-building initiatives to equip the forestry industry to…
Nestled in the picturesque KwaZulu-Natal Midlands area of Karkloof is Jetteson Timbers, a family-owned and operated business with Brendon Raw at its helm. Brendon grew up in Karkloof, outside Howick, where his parents owned 90…
Over the past few months, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) and the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) received numerous complaints from industry stakeholders and consumers about the sale of illegally treated…
Blowers are an integral part of fire management programmes. The STIHL BR 700 and BR 800 backpack blowers are powerful, reliable and robust, making them ideal for this type of work when you need blowers…
According to the UN FAO, 40%, or about 15,624,000 hectares, of Zimbabwe is forested. Among these, 5.1% qualify as primary biodiverse and carbon-dense forests. Presently, Zimbabwe boasts roughly 130,000 hectares of planted or exotic trees.…
New Forests has appointed Yida Kemoli as managing director, Africa, reporting to company chief executive officer Mark Rogers and joining the New Forests’ executive committee. We are extremely excited to welcome Yida to the team.…
