China's hunger for wood raw-material pushes timber prices upward, increasing the importation of logs and wood chips to record levels in 2010, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Read More

Social justice, environment and international development organisations have echoed an Indonesian call on the Australia Government to fulfil its 2007 election promise to ban imports of illegal timber. Read More

The [Australian] federal government says it is considering a ban on the importation of illegally-logged timber and making it a criminal offence. Read More

THE Australian federal government is considering making it a criminal offence to import timber that has been illegally harvested overseas. Read More

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today announced that from 1 April 2010 new social criteria will be added to the UK Government’s timber procurement policy. Read More

EUGENE, Ore. -- Prices in the depressed lumber industry have risen recently, as production has fallen to meet demand and dealers have begun restocking inventories. A trade group forecasts rising demand next year. "It's simple supply and demand coming together," said Shawn Church, editor of the Eugene trade publication Random Lengths. The publication reports the recent price of framing lumber was up 9.7 percent from a year ago and the cost of structural panels was... Read More