John Deere is rolling out its first H Series wheeled cut-to-length forest machine models. The large-size class machine models – the 1270H and 1470H harvesters and the new 20-ton load capacity class 2010H and 25-ton…
A forest of officials attended the recent handover of the Mission, Nqamakwe and Mgomanzi plantations to the Tobotshane, Amahlubi and Amazizi traditional councils in Butterworth, Eastern Cape by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the…
A new study reveals compelling evidence that forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Gabon and the Republic of Congo have more larger mammals and critically endangered species, such as gorillas and elephants,…
FSC forest management certification is back on the cards for Zimbabwe after taking a backseat for almost 15 years, largely due to severe economic challenges, such as hyperinflation, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate,…
“I realised there was money in wood when I saw a Wood-Mizer sawmill cutting a log,” says Krishna Wood Sawmill managing director Jinajunga Borisomoya. The former transport company owner delivered logs to sawmills in Kolwezi,…
The Forestry South Africa (FSA) online seminar in March provided a platform for a few of the forestry sector’s leading researchers and industry representatives to present an overview of the cross-disciplinary FSA-funded research programmes and…
The days of applying pesticides to kill organisms destroying a newly planted crop, and inadvertently impacting the health of people, animals, soils and waterways are gone. In its place is a bewildering cliff of legislation,…
With total funding of nearly R20 million over five years (2024 – 2028), researchers at the Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (EucXylo) at Stellenbosch University (SU) are well…
South Africa’s state-owned forestry company, Safcol, has commenced its three-year management contract in the Msunduzi Municipality’s timber plantations adjacent to Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal. Read the full article written by Justin Nyakudanga – https://www.woodbizafrica.co.za/february-2024-issue-34/#february-2024-issue-34/40/
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) says this year’s UN International Day of Forests theme, “Forests and innovation: New solutions for a better world”, is highly pertinent. The FSC’s Africa certification manager, Nano Darko, and policy…
