Seattle, WA, September 29, 2009 — Australia, the world largest exporter of wood chips reduced shipments by 28% during the first half of 2009. The biggest decline was that of softwood and hardwood chips to Japan, which were down 31% and 36%, respectively, compared to the same period in 2008.

As a result of the reduced production of pulp in Japan the past year, demand for imported wood fiber has fallen and countries that export, such as Australia, have had to try to find alternative markets. In 2009, Eucalyptus chips destined for Japan were down to 74% of all Australian hardwood chip exports as compared to 86% in the previous year. Other increasingly important markets include Taiwan, South Korea and China. The brightest spot for chip exports the past year has been China, which has more than doubled the import volumes from Australia this year, reaching over 470,000 tons during the first eight months (some softwood but most hardwood).

Although Eucalyptus exports have declined, the domestic consumption of plantation Eucalyptus wood fiber in Australia has been increasing steadily as fast-growing plantations have matured. In the 2Q/09, there were 21% more Eucalyptus chips traded compared to the same quarter last year.

Domestic prices for both softwood and hardwood fiber were slightly lower in the 2Q in Australian dollars, but substantially higher in US dollar terms as a result of the strengthening Australian currency. Eucalyptus pulplog prices were up 14% in the 2Q and Eucalyptus chip prices for domestic pulpmills increased by 13%, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

The export price for Eucalyptus chips going to Japan for the remainder of the year settled at the same level as in the 1H/09 and 2008. Softwood chip export prices for chips shipped from Portland, Victoria fell US$19/BDU to US$140.50/BDU (US$129/odmt) in the 1H/09. Australian softwood chips were close to the lowest cost chips delivered to Japan in the 2Q/09, only slightly higher than the price for Douglas-fir chips from the US. Radiata pine from New Zealand and spruce-pine-fir chips from Canada are currently the highest cost fiber delivered to Japanese pulp mills.

Global timber market reporting is included in the 50-page publication Wood Resource Quarterly. The report, established in 1988 and with readers in over 25 countries, tracks sawlog, pulpwood, lumber and pellet prices in key regions around the world and also includes regular updates of the latest developments in international timber, pulp, lumber and biomass markets.
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“While the Greens have suggested slowing down controversial cuts to tree protection, National are hell bent on fast tracking changes. They are using urgency in Parliament and are moving an amendment that will remove tree protection almost immediately,” Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman said today.

“Ring fencing tree protection – not the ring barking approach taken by the Government – is what’s needed. Sadly the Labour Party has decided to vote for this bill which weakens environmental protection.”

Trees bring a city to life, and are an important amenity for residents, but the Government seems intent on taking that away from the public, Dr Norman said.

The Resource Management (Streamlining and Simplifying) Amendment Bill will be debated under urgency in Parliament this week. Clause 52 of the Bill bans all general tree protection rules from 2012. Only trees specified in a Council’s plan will be protected.

In a last minute amendment, the Government will bring forward the removal of protection from trimming from three years away in 2012 to just three weeks away.

“The Government shows extreme arrogance by fast tracking removal of protection for our cities’ beautiful trees, allowing anyone to hack away at them from 1 October this year,” Dr Norman said.

The Green Party will table amendments today to protect Auckland’s trees, including compromise options and new ministerial powers to permit general rules protecting types of trees, i.e. all pohutukawa on the Auckland City coastline.

“Trees clean the air, provide a home for birds, and make cities like Auckland great places to live, work and play. Why on earth would we want to allow them to be axed?”

Aside from reducing tree protection, the bill also cuts environmental protection and community participation in a number of ways.

* Link to the Green Party’s minority report on the Bill: http://www.greens.org.nz/misc-documents/green-party-minority-report-resource-management-simplifying-and-streamlining-amendmen

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The petition will ask the Government to halt any plans for mining New Zealand’s most highly-protected land and water.

“Kiwis who care about their natural treasures can tell the National Party that they don’t want mining in our most highly valued places,” Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei said today.

The Government has announced plans to do a ’stock take’ of the mineral deposits in public conservation areas currently protected from mining in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act. Schedule 4 areas include wildlife sanctuaries, national parks, marine reserves, and wetlands of international importance.

The Government has also instructed Crown Minerals officials to look at what areas should be taken out of Schedule 4 in order to open them up for mining.

“Even the economics of mining don’t add up,” Mrs Turei said. “The financial value of protected land is in the perpetual fresh water, flood protection and other ecoservices that far outweigh the one-off and environmentally-damaging mineral revenues.

“Mining would also risk thousands of Kiwi jobs that rely on our tourism industry.”

The national parks, reserves and sanctuaries were also part of New Zealanders’ heritage, Mrs Turei noted: “Thousands of Kiwis have invested countless volunteer hours and dollars to protect these places. That heritage should be passed on to our kids not destroyed for short term profit.”

Meanwhile,the Government’s search for coal and lignite was also out of step with the world’s shift to renewable energy sources, Mrs Turei said.

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Seattle, USA June 25 2009 — The total wood fiber consumption by the pulp sector in Japan has slowly increased over the past 15 years, reaching a record of 19.1 million tons in 2008, of which 13 million tons was hardwood fiber. This can be compared to a total consumption of 18.7 million tons in 2005 and 18.4 million tons in 1993. The pulp industry in Japan has always been very dependent on imported wood chips and the country continues to be the dominant importer of wood chips in the Pacific Rim. Its share accounted for 84 percent of the total chip trade in the region in 2008, with Taiwan, China and South Korea together accounting for the remaining 16 percent.

Last year, over 72 percent of the total wood fibre consumption in Japan was imported, with a majority being hardwood chips. Since 1993, the usage of imported hardwood chips, mainly from plantations in Australia, Vietnam, Chile and South Africa, has gone up about 40 percent. Consumption of softwood fibre has slowly and steadily declined, reaching a record-low of 6.1 million tons in 2008. This is nine percent lower than in 1993 and represents a reduction in the use of wood chips from overseas sources.

Pulpmills in Japan were paying close to all-time-high prices for imported wood chips in the 4Q/08. Softwood chip prices averaged US$203/odmt in the 1Q/09, up from $157/odmt two years ago, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly. Imported hardwood chip prices have also trended upward the past few years and reached a peak of US$201/odmt in the 3Q/08. The average price in the first quarter this year was down to US$187/odmt. The lowest-cost chips during 2008 were shipped from Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, while Australia, South Africa and Chile were the highest-cost suppliers.

Imports of wood chips to Japan in 2009 will probably be at their lowest levels in at least 20 years, because the pulp industry is expected to reduce production this year. With the reduced demand for wood fiber, it can be anticipated that wood chip prices, particularly softwood chips, will be lower this year than in the past few years.

Global timber market reporting is included in the 50-page publication Wood Resource Quarterly. The report, established in 1988 and with readers in over 25 countries, tracks sawlog and pulpwood prices in most regions around the world and also includes regular updates of the latest developments in international timber, pulp, lumber and biomass markets.

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Wood Resources International LLC
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Seattle, USA, May 25, 2009 — The global pulp and paper industry has continued to reduce production in 2009. The manufacturing of market pulp was 16 percent lower the first two months of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. As a result of the lower operating rates and declining demand for wood fiber, pulpwood and wood chip costs for the world’s pulp industry continued to slide in the 1Q/09 and the WRQ Global Average
Wood Fiber Price Indices recorded the second sharpest quarterly decline since 1995.

The Global Average Wood Fiber Price is a volume-weighted average of delivered wood fiber prices for the pulp industry in all 17 regions tracked by the publication Wood Resource Quarterly. These regions together account for 85-90% of the world’s wood-based pulp production capacity.

The average conifer wood fiber price fell 8.5 percent from the previous quarter to $89.00/odmt, and was 20.5 percent lower than the peak in the 2Q/08. The reduction was mainly the result of substantial price declines in the local currencies in Finland, Germany, Russia and western US. Wood costs in Latin America and Oceania were only slightly lower in the 1Q/09 as compared to the 4Q/08.

The average non-conifer wood fiber cost fell 6.5 percent in the 1Q/08 to US$91.99/odmt, the lowest level since early 2007. The biggest declines in local currencies occurred in Finland, Germany, France and Japan, while prices in China, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and Australia were practically unchanged in early 2009.

During the past two decades, global wood fiber prices have been declining during most of the 1990’s and early 2000, followed by a substantial increase from 2002 to 2008, according to Wood Resource Quarterly. Wood costs reached record levels in early 2008, but then fell rapidly for 12 months. The recent decline is most likely going to be temporary and global wood costs will slowly increase again later this year or in early 2010.

Global pulpwood and sawlog market updates are included in the 50-page publication Wood Resource Quarterly. The report, established in 1988 and with readers in over 25 countries, tracks wood prices in most regions around the world and also includes regular updates of international pulp, lumber, timber and biomass markets.

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In a memorandum to Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson’s office, Dr. Holt stated that the animals had “significantly increased selenium levels” in samples tested.   He reported that the findings obtained at the department’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Kissimmee were confirmed by independent testing conducted at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville, the University of California, Davis’ Animal Health and Food Safety lab and at testing facilities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The three universities assisted in the laboratory testing.

“Signs exhibited by the horses and their rapid deaths were consistent with toxic doses of selenium,” Dr. Holt said.

Selenium is a trace mineral which is essential for normal cell function and health in animals, and is often included in small quantities in supplements and feed for horses. Large doses, however, can be fatal to animals.

Commissioner Bronson expressed gratitude for the work done at the University of Florida, which conducted necropsies on 15 of the horses and performed extensive toxicology testing. He also thanked the University of California, Davis and Cornell University for testing conducted in their labs.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Bronson noted that the deaths of the horses have triggered an investigation by a number of state agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and he emphasized that the inquiry is ongoing.

He said that no further information on the investigation can be disclosed at this time to prevent the investigation from being compromised.

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AUCKLAND/PRANGEL/April 28, 2009 — The lumber market in New Zealand (N.Z.) continues to be weak, and many sawmills are running at reduced operating rates due to falling domestic housing activity and a weak property market, reports Wood Resource Quarterly. Housing starts have trended downwards, with the total number of new dwellings at only about 60 percent of what it was just over a year ago.

In 2008, 24 sawmills closed, and it is expected that more plants will permanently shut down in 2009. Despite the reduced demand for sawlogs domestically, prices did not change much – in New Zealand dollars – as the log export market has been fairly strong. In U.S. dollars, domestic radiata pine sawlog prices averaged US$49/m3 in the 4Q/08, down from the 12-year high of US$68/m3 in the 1Q/08, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

The exports of radiata pine sawlogs have been one of the few bright spots in the forest products sector the past year. Shipments to the two major destinations, China and Japan, were higher in 2008 than in the previous two years, and total exports reached a five-year record of 6.6 million m3 last year. In the 4Q/08, the New Zealand market share of imported logs to Japan was a record 17 percent, up from about 10 percent in 2006 and 2007. In China, New Zealand supplied 15 percent of imported softwood logs, an increase from about four percent in 2006. Log exporters have recently been benefiting from a weak NZ dollar, lower freight rates and higher prices for logs from Russia, the dominant supplier of logs to Asia.

The weak New Zealand dollar has made pulp and sawmills more competitive as they now have some of the lowest wood raw-material costs, in U.S. dollar terms, in the world. This may sound like good news, but the problem is that demand for lumber and pulp in New Zealand’s major export markets is in decline. Another obstacle is that due to the global credit crunch, many of the log buyers in Asia cannot obtain a letter of credit to purchase more products. So, despite the low wood costs in New Zealand, there are limited opportunities for exporters to increase shipments under the current market conditions.

Global timber market reporting is included in the 50-page publication Wood Resource Quarterly. The report, established in 1988 and with readers in over 20 countries, tracks sawlog and pulpwood prices in most regions around the world and also includes regular updates of the latest developments in international timber, pulp, lumber and biomass markets.

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