Some brief but interesting forestry related news from Dell, the American computer company. It will start transporting two of its latest computer products from now on (netbooks) padded with bamboo, sourced from sustainable Chinese forestry plantations.
Dell will obtain its bamboo from a sustainably managed forestry plantation in China’s Jiangxi Province. The forestry plantation in [...]
A significant problem with reference to deforestation, is the growth and use of Palm Oil in the food chain and for bio fuels. Notably in areas of south eastern Asia, palm oil has been responsible for the substantial reduction of rainforests through the indiscriminate clearing of the natural forestry.
Studies by the World Wildlife Fund have [...]
“Green enthusiasts” worldwide are to be offered the opportunity to play game keeper and monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.
Satellite images will be frequently updated and anyone with internet access will be able to make instant comparisons with older images and identify destruction of rainforest almost immediately.
The green detectives [...]
Funds and investment firms are becoming ever more acquisitive of land and forests in Brazil due to the potential for growth in demand for wood between companies in the pulp and paper, furniture and steel, among others. Given the concern about a possible halt to acquisitions in forestland in the country, these companies believe that [...]
As this blog has been sponsored by Greenwood Management, I wanted to have a direct discussion with the management team at Greenwood in order to get a feel as to how they saw the forestry industry at present, and what direction Greenwood Management saw forestry trends moving towards generally.
Also I wanted to get an overview of what [...]
Buying up forest property is a different kind of property investment and can be traced all the way back to when Tarzan and Jane first settled down seventy years ago.
Although they might find it a little crowded now as investors have turned to this sector as an area that has stayed steady in an otherwise [...]
News just released that Amazon deforestation rates have declined by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago.
Slightly more than 7,000 sq km was deforested between July 2008 and August 2009.
The news is clearly going to be welcomed ahead of the Copenhagen summit on climate [...]
The Walt Disney Company plans to invest US$7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S.A, the Amazon and the Congo Basin in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Disney’s forestry investment policy is being made in partnership with three conservation groups: Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation [...]
Timberland Investment World Summit in New York.
Focusing in particular on the American timber markets and timberland prices, Credit Suisse believes log prices have bottomed in 2009 and they should improve in 2010-2011. Credit Suisse go on to forecast a healthy outlook for forestry investment with further strengthening of timber prices 2013 to 2018.
The managing director [...]
