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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:24:25 +1200
From: southem <southem@wave.co.nz>
Subject: SOUTHEM Online 64

Dear list members
Please find below the latest edition of the Southern Hemisphere forestry
news headlines.
Kind regards
Mike Smith

SOUTHEM ONLINE

Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal Online news briefs

SOUTHEM Online - Issue 64 ?20 May 2003

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YEARBOOK HIGHLIGHTS RESOURCES AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
The link between increasing resources and forest products development is
highlight in the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Yearbook 2001-02
edition. The 240-page Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Yearbook provides
industry-by-industry, country-by-country details of developments in the
South, including, for the first time, trade details with the United States.
Key countries include, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, New Zealand,
Australia and South Africa.
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FOREST INCENTIVE PAYOUTS
The Argentine Government forestry agency, SAGPyA has continued to pay out
afforestation incentives owed from the previous years, paying out 14 million
pesos for plantings between 1997 and 2000, according to Desarrollo Forestal
(DF) Ediciones. The payouts had been stalled due to the country뭩 economic
problems.

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BIG NEW EUCALYPT PULP PLANT ANNOUNCED
Brazil뭩 Veracel Celulose S.A. is to construct a new plant to produce
eucalypt pulp in in Eun?olis (BA). The plant will be one of the world뭩
largest of its kind, with a capacity to produce 900,000 tons a year and
require US$1.25 billion in investments, of which US$300 million had already
been invested in forestry and infrastructure developments, SBS reported.

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RACE TO HARVEST BURNT TIMBER
Australia뭩 ACT Forests is in a race against time to harvest burnt timber,
before it is spoilt by a fungus, the ABC reports. The massive fires in
January burnt two-thirds of the Australian Capital Territory's plantations,
and only 30 per cent of that is of commercial logging quality. But
sawmillers are asking their customers to support the ACT industry and
continue buying the 'blue' timber.

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APPEAL DELAYS LOCKWOOD MOVE
In New Zealand, an appeal to the Environment Court means leading wood house
manufacturer, Lockwood Homes, has had to put off moving its manufacturing
plant to rural Mamaku, 20km north of Rotorua, for at least five years, the
Daily Post reported.

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COMPANIES-GREENS IN TRUCE OVER CERTIFICATION
Big Chilean companies CMPC and Arauco have met in Atlanta, United States,
with representatives of environmental groups where they agreed a truce over
the certification of wood products. El Diario reported that the meeting,
held under the auspices of the multinational Home Depot, saw an agreement
settled so that the companies will provide information on their forest
management to the environmental groups. In exchange, the environmental
groups will halt second part of an advertising campaign that was due to go
ahead in the United States promoting a boycott of Chilean products.

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PAPEL MISIONERO PLANNING INVESTMENTS
The Argentine paper producer, Papel Misionero, is studying the likelihood of
new investments, according to DF Ediciones. The company뭩 general manager
Luis Olmo confirmed projects totalling at least US$6 million had been
approved for the coming years.

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FOREST PRODUCTS IN 4.8 PER CENT GROWTH IN 2003
Chilean forest products exports are expected to reach US$2.4 billion this
year, or a growth of 4.8 per cent over last year, according to projections
for Infor. It also noted that the sector had committed US$3.6 billion over
the next few years.

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FORESTS GET INDIGENOUS COORDINATOR
An Aboriginal coordinator has been appointed by State Forests of New South
Wales in Australia to ensure significant Aboriginal places and objects in
NSW south coast forests are protected, the ABC has reported. Paul Carriage
says he is keen to hear from Koori people about any potential spots of
importance that may be placed on a preservation register. He says it is
about time the preservation of historic Aboriginal sites was considered a
priority, and says through his job, local people will become more empowered.

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CMPC RESULTS IMPROVING
Chile뭩 CMPC group has reported improved results for the first quarter on
the back of better pulp prices compared to the previous quarter. Sales rose
to US$356 million during the first quarter 2003, reflecting a 6 per cent
increase compared to the fourth quarter 2002, due mainly to the higher
volume of sales of pulp, tissue paper and corrugated cardboard boxes and the
improved price of pulp.

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CELULOSA ARAUCO HELPS BOOST COPEC PROFITS
Strong growth in its forest arm Celulosa Arauco has helped to boost the
results for Chile뭩 Copec group in the first quarter 2003, which saw net
profits lift by 164.3 per cent over 2002. In particular, Celulosa Arauco
reported US$99 million in profits, compared with US$18.5 million in the
previous period.

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PECOM SALE DEBATE
The sale of Argentine forestry company, Pecom, to Chilean owned Alto Paran?BR> continues to generate debate, with the competition watchdog, the Comisi?
Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia, set to rule on whether or not the
company will have a dominant role in the market or whether the deal will
result in an economic concentration of the businesses. The sale of logs is
central to the debate, DF Ediciones reported.

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NEW ZEALAND MISSES BOAT ON FURNITURE
New Zealand appears to have 뱈issed the boat?as far as capitalising on its
huge potential for added value, wood-based furniture manufacture, according
to a columnist in the latest edition of NZ Pine Manufacturers?News. He
noted that China뭩 furniture exports to the US now exceeded NZ$1 billion,
the capability expected of the New Zealand industry, but not achieved,
during the 1990s. While labour costs are a critical factor, columnist Fred
Staples says they are not the only reason.

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AUSTRALIA JOINS IN BACKING ITTO GRANT SCHEME
Australia has joined with the governments of Japan, Switzerland, the United
States, Norway, Finland and the Republic of Korea in providing financial
backing for, the International Tropical Timber Council pledge of US$4.5
million in grants to assist member countries in forest management and to
expand the tropical timber trade.

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PROGRESS THE KINLEITH INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
Parties to the drawn out industrial dispute at the Kinleith industrial
dispute in New Zealand have reported some progress has been made. The NZ
Herald reported the intervention of Carter Holt Harvey CEO Peter Springford
helped break the deadlock, leading to a joint statement with Engineering,
Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little that said
that obstacles to making progress had been cleared away at a meeting in
Auckland.

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GREAT INTEREST IN RIOCELL SALE
Some companies have presented proposals for the purchase of the Riocell,
being sold by the Klabin group, SBS reported. Those interested include:
VCP, Aracruz, Ripasa, Suzano, ENCE (a large Spanish pulp producer) and
another foreign group, said to be Mondi of South Africa. The proposals were
delivered to the banks, UBS and Unibanco, co-ordinating the sale.

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WOOD WASP STRATEGY
The South African forest industry has agreed on a multi-million rand
strategy to combat the Sirex wood-wasp which is spreading rapidly across the
country뭩 pine plantations, SA Forestry has reported. A biological control
method will be used to limit wasp plantations, it is reported.

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FIBRAPLAC MUST PLANT 2,000 HECTARES OF PINES THIS YEAR
Fibraplac, a company in Brazil뭩 ISDRA Group, that is building a medium
density fibreboard plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, planted about 1,500
hectares of pines in the past year. For this year, the company needs to
plant more than 2,000 hectares, SBS reported

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KLABIN IN FARM FORESTRY DEAL
Brazil pulp and paper company Klabin is joining with a farming and
agricultural research group to help develop farm forestry in a plan that
foresees the distribution of 2.1 million pine seedlings to farmers across
the state of Santa Catarina. The objective is to promote the economic
development farms using forestry, to generate new employment, to improve
environmental conditions with the forest cover, as well as stimulating
regional timber markets, SBS reported.

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SECOND LOG SHIP TOUCHES BOTTOM AT GISBORNE
Authorities will interview staff at the New Zealand port of Gisborne after a
second incident involving a log ship scraping the port seafloor in less than
16 months. The ship, the Forest Champion, was not thought to be seriously
damaged because after leaving Gisborne it travelled to Napier where a diver
inspected the hull, the Dominion Post reported.

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BELL MARKS MILESTONE
The South African company Bell Equipment, has marked the delivery of its
10,000th three-wheeler log loader machine, SA Forestry reported. Launched
initially for the sugarcane industry, the loader has been 뱈orphed?over the
years but is noted for its manoeuvrability.

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CUTTING RIGHTS EXPECTED TO FETCH NZ$4 MILLION
The Nelson City Council expects to receive at least $4 million for the sale
of forestry cutting rights, the Nelson Mail reported. The council decided
last year that it would consider selling cutting rights to about 700ha of
forest in the Brook, Roding, Marsden and Maitai areas.

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CRAZY ANT SEARCH
New Zealand Government biosecurity agents are searching a Whangarei timber
company to see if it has been invaded by crazy ants that can blind humans.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) contractors are targeting timber
yards and timber treatment sites in the Northland, Auckland and Tauranga
regions that receive timber from the South Pacific. Crazy ant colonies have
been found on Auckland and Mt Maunganui wharves and may have arrived on
timber from the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

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BOARD PLANT FOR 12-DAY SHUT
New Zealand뭩 Carter Holt Harvey has announced that its paperboard business
in Whakatane will take a 12-day market shut from 23 May. Grant Stinson, CE
for CHH Whakatane, said that conditions in the market were making it
uneconomical to run the mill. The mill will reopen on 4 June.

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JOB CUTS FOLLOW NORSKE SKOG PROFIT DROP
Norway뭩 Norske Skog looks set to cut jobs at its Kawerau newsprint mill in
New Zealand as Australasian group profits fell 49 per cent in the first
quarter 2003, the NZ Herald reported. The company reported a 97 million
krona (NZ$25 million) profit in Australia and New Zealand in the three
months to March 31, down from 193 million krona last year.

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ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVAL FOR GREENPLAN
New Zealand forestry investment company, Greenplan Forestry Ltd, has been
given a positive report by a leading environmentalist. Guy Salmon,
Environmental Consultant and Executive Director of the Ecologic Foundation,
carried out the appraisal of Greenplan뭩 activities, noting in his report
that Greenplan is an agent of change in the King Country region and
generally approving of the company뭩 current direction. www.greenplan.co.nz

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ITTO PROVIDING NEW DATABASE
The International Tropical Timber Organisation is working on a web site for
the provision of a database on tropical industrial lesser-used wood species.
In the meantime, the ITTO has produced a CD-Rom, providing a database of
nearly 1,000 tropical timber species. For more information, email:
itto@itto.or.jp

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FUTURE FORESTS AND TIMBER 2003
Future Forests and Timber 2003 is a conference being held in Sydney,
Australia, providing a significant opportunity for policy discussion,
information transfer and networking for the forest and forest products
sector in Australasia. For more information, go to abacus@abacusconf.com
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LAND USE MEETING
A meeting on Good Practice Guidance for Land-Use, Land-Use Change and
Forestry (Task 1) and on Definitions and Methodological Options to Inventory
Emissions from Direct Human-induced Degradation of Forests and De-vegetation
of Other Vegetation Types is being held in Sydney, Australia. 29-31 July
2003. (Source: Forest Information Update

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:13:58 +0200
From: "Nabuurs, Gert-Jan" <Gert-Jan.Nabuurs@wur.nl>
Subject: new book on future dynamics of European forests

B R I L L Academic Publishers

EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE RESEARCH REPORT, VOLUME 15
Development of European Forests until 2050
A projection of forest resources and forest management in 30 countries
G.J. Nabuurs, R. P?vinen, A. Pussinen and M.J. Schelhaas

In Europe, forest policy discussions are moving towards a
European-Union-wide strategy. This will further strengthen the relations
between the European countries in the field of forests and forest
management. Europeanwide forest planning and decision-making require that
policy-makers have insight in the long-term development of European forests
under alternative regimes.
The European Forest Information Scenario Model (EFISCEN) was used in this
joint project of the European Forest Institute and ALTERRA to make
projections of the development of the European forests under four different
scenarios. This book addresses the consequences of each scenario for wood
production, biodiversity, and the environmental functions of the forest.
The results provide policy-makers with a challenge of whether to intervene
in the ongoing trend of build-up of growing stock and whether to choose
between enhancing biodiversity, increasing the use of domestically produced
wood products, or to combine them. This title will be of anyone working in
the field of forest modelling, natural resources, climate change, forest
policy, in academia, industry and NGO's.

2003; x+242 pages * ISBN 90-04-13148-5 * Price: EUR 72 / US$ 86
The book can be ordered from www.brill.nl

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:57:05 +0545
From: Karsten Plauborg <k_plauborg@hotmail.com>
Subject: Specialisation and division of labour in the natural resource
management sector

Dear colleagues,

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I am writing to inquire about information related to specialisation and =
division of labour in the natural resource management sector.

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The Natural Resource Management Sector Assistance Programme (NARMSAP) is =
a DANIDA funded programme with the main purpose to strengthen the =
natural resource management sector in Nepal. The programme is =
implemented in partnership with His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMG) =
the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation. A central instrument in =
obtaining the immediate objective of improved management of natural =
resources in Nepal is human resource development of government staff. =
Staff are trained in e.g. Forest Inventory, Surveying and Mapping, =
Forest Planning, Silviculture, Nursery Management, NTFP Management, =
Participatory Planning, Wild Life Management, Fire Protection, Community =
Forestry (legal rights, conflict management, record and account keeping, =
group formation processes). However, so far much of this training and =
human resource development has been done without a strategy for =
specialisation on different topics on behalf of the HMG staff. This in =
turn means that all staff members, approximately some 10.000 people, =
should potentially receive training on all the above topics, because =
staff, due to government policy, frequently transfers to other positions =
and geographical locations.

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In Europe and USA the ever-growing trend has been to specialise staff on =
specific topics in order to obtain complex management goals and enhance =
capacity on a variety of issues in natural resource management (and =
other sectors as well). The specialisation has involved most parts of =
the workforce including unskilled labour, mid level technicians, =
academically trained staff, managers and researchers.

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Can anybody help with references to literature that describes the =
consequences of and experiences with specialisation/division of labour, =
be it from developed or=20

developing countries, in the natural resource management sector? Or =
other information that would help to qualify a discussion on this topic?



Thanks.

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Karsten Uhd Plauborg

k_plauborg@hotmail.com

Regional Programme Advisor

NARMSAP

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:18:26 -0300
From: F Meng <fmeng@unb.ca>
Subject: Graduate student scholarship opportunities+

Nexfor/Bowater Forest Watershed Research Center is currently looking for a
qualified graduate student at Master or Ph.D level. The candidate must
qualify to receive NSERC-Industry Scholarship. Under this program, student
will receive minimum $19300 per year, with opportunity to work in a
international forestry company for 2 to 3 months per year. To qualify, the
student must be a Canadian citizen of landed immigrant, with good academic
standing in the last two years in university. Detail requirements can be
found on the following website:http://www.nserc.ca/guide/sf/2c_e.htm

The candidate is expected to participate research project in the research
center. The student is expected to have good computer skill and GIS skill,
interested in developing tools that use GIS to solve engineering an
environmental problems related to forest operation and planning. Qualified
students could send their resume to Dr. Paul, A. Arp or Dr. Fanrui Meng,
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton, NB. Canada E3B 6C2. Phone: 506 453-4921, Fax: 506
453-3538, email: fmeng@unb.ca or arp2@unb.ca.

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