In the fight to mitigate climate change and deforestation in the tropics, timber plantations have emerged as a promising strategy for reforesting degraded land and connecting patches of natural forest ...

The Sarawak state government's announcement in February that it will no longer grant provisional leases to palm oil companies is hugely significant for Indigenous peoples and their forests. Previously ...

Ecologists have discovered that timber plantations in Hawaii use more than twice the amount of water to grow as native forests use. Especially for island ecosystems, these findings suggest that land ...

Investments in the timber plantation industry will return to form in the new year due to recent changes in legislation, according to plantation group Great Southern managing director John Young. He ...

Timber projects took the lion’s share of funds raised in the agribusiness sector in the last financial year. According to Australian Agribusiness Group, timber projects raised $506 million, which was ...

GUANGXI, South China — When the strange-looking trees were first planted more than a decade ago on the outskirts of Yong’an Village — population 2,500 — government officials heralded a coming economic ...

Old-growth lumber used in homes built before 1960 came from trees that were 100–200 years old, producing denser, tighter-grained wood than modern plantation timber. Modern dimensional lumber is ...

Half-a-million native blue gum trees will be planted at four sites across 550 hectares in a bid to improve certainty in the Latrobe Valley timber industry, the state government says. Four sites on ...

The jaguarundi, an elusive wild cat from the Americas, was detected by camera traps in some of the timber plantations within the Panama Canal Watershed. In the fight to mitigate climate change and ...