SOUTHEM ONLINE Southern Hemisphere Forestry news briefs SOUTHEM Online - Issue 295 7 March 2013 Hi, Hola

la and Oi Welcome to this edition of Southem Online. Cheers and Saludos from Down Under Mike Smith Editor and Director Email: info@southem.com URL: www.southem.com SOUTHEM COMMUNITY REGISTRATION Send an email to subscribe@southem.com LINKEDIN GROUP @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2218173 FACEBOOK @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/southem/33458700993?ref=ts SPONSORS MESSAGES Help keep this publication free please visit our sponsors today! Contact info@southem.com for sponsorship details. REMSOFT, INFLOR PROVIDING QUALITY SOLUTIONS TO SOUTH AMERICA Canadian company Remsoft, a leading provider of advanced analytics, modeling and spatial optimization solutions, is holding Open Training sessions in Australia and New Zealand during March. The Melbourne session is between 11 and 14 March and the Rotorua session is between 19 and 22 March. For more information, go to: http://www.remsoft.com/events.php?id=201 LASER TECHNOLOGY - MAKING MEASURING TREES AND MONITORING SLOPE GRADES SIMPLE Laser Technology means timber cruisers can now make tree heights and monitoring slope grades a simple task. Surveying jobs such as sale boundaries and stem mapping can now become effortless. If you are involved with mill operations and need to measure chip or log volumes, nothing could be easier than when using our laser rangefinders and software solutions. Imagine not having to wade through creeks or fight through foliage just to get a usable field measurement. http://www.lasertech.com/Forestry.aspx 2013 TIMBERLAND INVESTMENT CONFERENCE A HUGE SUCCESS The University of Georgias Center for Forest Business 2013 Timberland Investment Conference is being hailed as a huge success. We are very grateful to everyone involved who helped make the conference such an outstanding success. With over 500 conference attendees this year, it was quite a crowd (and our largest yet!). We

hope everyone enjoyed the conference as much as we enjoyed putting it on. Shortly, we will have the speaker presentations and final attendee list available on the Centers website. We will also be sending out a conference evaluation survey by email. Thank you again for making this years conference an overwhelming success and we look forward to seeing you at the next one in a little less than two years! For more information on the Center for Forest Business, go to: http://www.ugacfb.com/ **************************************** COPYRIGHT NOTICE Items headlined in SOUTHEM Online are drawn from a number of sources. The source of the item is quoted, either by publication or organisations in line with the practice of fair reporting. Items originally published in Spanish are translated by TMS Ltd. Every effort is made to ensure use of paid wire service material is avoided at all times. Should users wish to utilise SOUTHEM Online on their own web sites, we request that this is done to accurately reflect the current layout to ensure attribution is appropriate. ROAD FREIGHTERS OPPOSE SA CARBON TAX South Africas Road Freight Association (RFA) says it will lobby against the SA Governments proposed carbon tax set for implementation on January 1, 2015. The RFA says it opposed the carbon tax, especially as the local availability of clean fuels and biofuels, producing less carbon dioxide, remained an issue, Engineering News reported. The formal introduction of cleaner fuels in South Africa was set to take place on July 1, 2017. RFA technical and operations manager Gavin Kelly was reported as saying the carbon tax burden would also fall on a road freight industry with low margins but which kept the wheels of the economy turning. INVESTOR PLAY FOR SANDALWOOD INVESTMENT SCHEME Listed investment company Hamilton Securities Limited is preparing a competing bid for the acquisition of a potentially lucrative sandalwood plantation investment scheme in managed by Elders Forestry in Western Australia. As with other companies in the agricultural investment scheme sector in Australia, Elders is under financial pressure to offload the forestry assets and has agreed a A$70 million deal on the Sandalwood Schemed, with Santanol Pty Ltd. The Financial Standard Online reported that for the deal to go through Hamilton executive director Giles Craig says that Elders requires the support of unit holders. But Hamilton, a listed investment company, is preparing a counter-bid in consultation with the current unit holders of the scheme, who believe they are at risk of recording substantial losses on their investment. GUNNS TRADING WHILE INSOLVENT INVESTIGATION AS LIQUIDATOR APPOINTED The humiliation of the once dominant Australian timber group Gunns Ltd is just about complete with an announcement the newly appointed liquidator will investigate claims the company traded while insolvent. Creditors owed more than A$750 million have voted PPB Advisory, the administrator since late last year, be appointed liquidator. ABC News reported Daniel Bryant from PPB saying whether it is possible to determine whether there is commercial recovery for the benefit of the stakeholders from the transactions.

FORESTERS PUSH DEAL ON EXTRAORDINARY FROST DAMAGE Forest growers in the province of Entre Rios in Argentina have been meeting with government officials in an attempt to have severe frost damage to plantations in 2012 declared an extraordinary event. The declaration will be imported because the forests were established under a forest promotion law in which owners are receiver government payments. NEW FIBRIA PULP SHIP TAKES ON RECORD CARGO Brazilian pulp-maker Fibria took delivery of a new ship, the STX Brassiana, one week and the next has sent the ship from port with a record cargo of 53,548 tons of pulp, setting a new record: the largest amount of pulp carried in a single vessel. This volume is equivalent to almost eight days of factory production at Fibrias Aracruz plant. The cargo was destined for Asian ports. NEW LIGHTWEIGHT PAPER BOOST CATALYST LATAM STRATEGY Canadian company Catalyst Paper has announced it is taking a major step forward in its Latin American market development strategy. Announcing the launch of Marathon Lite - a high-performing newsprint grade with an industry-leading basis weight of only 40 grams per square metre (gsm) Catalyst said in a statement it had long-standing expertise in lower-basis weight production across a wide range of paper grades. Growing Catalyst's long-standing presence in Latin America was a focus of its emerging markets strategy and leverages freight-logical proximity to serve this market from its Pacific coast manufacturing facilities. MONDI GROWTH FOLLOWS EURO1.2B OVERHAUL OF ACQUISITIONS South Africas Mondi Group says it will continue the integration and optimisation of its latest acquisitions as the group shifted its portfolio to exposure to higher-growth products, Engineering News reported. The group reportedly injected Euro1.2-billion into various acquisitions within the growing corrugated packaging and consumer packaging value chains during the year ended December 2012 to strengthen the company in tough market conditions. ALL GO AT SAPPI ON SPECIALISED CELLULOSE PROJECT Meanwhile, the South African paper and packaging group Sappis $340 million GoCell specialised cellulose (SC) expansion project at the Ngodwana mill, in the Mpumalanga area, is reportedly on track for commissioning by mid-2013 to grow its SC production. Engineering News reported Sappi CEO Ralph Bottger as saying global demand for dissolved wood pulp is 5.7-million tons a year and is increasing by 6 per cent each year. AMAZON COMMUNITY SEIZE GEAR IN TROPICAL FOREST PROTEST An indigenous community in Brazil has decided to single-handedly take action against illegal loggers who are moving into their territory in search of highly valued timber, Inter Press Service has reported. In the eastern corner of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, members of a Pukobj-Gavio indigenous community seized four trucks and a tractor loaded with almost 20 cubic metres of ip (Tabebuia chrysotricha) and sapucaia (genus Lecythis) logs. http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/indigenous-community-takes-forest-law-into-theirown-hands/

************************************************ SOUTHEM VIDEOS With Climate Change, a Bad Deal Gets Even Worse for the Global South Aura Bogado in a keynote address at the Power Up! Divest Fossit Fuels conference. http://www.thenation.com/blog/173183/climate-change-bad-deal-gets-even-worseglobal-south?_r=hpyr# SOUTHEM ARTICLES Maria Cristina Rullia, Antonio Savioria, and Paolo DOdoricob. Global land and water grabbing. January 2, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1213163110. PNAS January 15, 2013 vol. 110 no. 3 892-897. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/3/892.abstract M. Paulina Fernndez, Aldo Norero, Jorge R. Vera, and Eduardo Prez. A functionalstructural model for radiata pine (Pinus radiata) focusing on tree architecture and wood quality. Ann Bot. 2011 October; 108(6): 11551178. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189843/ Diego Luis Venncio. Mapeamento de Araucaria angustifolia utilizando DGPS e imagem de satlite Quickbird-2. Mapping of araucaria angustifolia using DPGS and satellite Quickbird-2 image. Thesis abstract - Dissertations in the Graduate Program in Geography, Agronomy, Evolutionary Biology and Forest Sciences at the State University Midwestern-UNICENTRO. http://revistas.unicentro.br/index.php/ambiencia/thesis/view/8 Jos Carlos Luque Brazn & Edith Gonzlez Cruz. Chilean press and political ecology in democratic Chile. Myopia of environmental pollution. Prensa chilena y ecologa poltica en el Chile democrtico. La miopa de la contaminacin ambiental.. Journal: Approaches Journal: Revista Enfoques : Ciencia Poltica y Administracin Pblica ISSN/EISSN: 07180241 Year: 2006 Volume: IV Issue: 5 Pages: 113-130. Publisher: Universidad Central de Chile. http://www.politicaygobierno.cl/documentos/enfoques/5/96000506.pdf Edwina A. Loxton, Jacki Schirmer and Peter Kanowski. Social impacts of the Regional Forest Agreement on members of the forest industry in north-eastern New South Wales. Australian Forestry Journal. 2012 Vol75(4). Pasicott P and Murphy GE. Effect of work schedule design on productivity of mechanised harvesting operations in Chile. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 2013, 43:2 (13 February 2013). http://www.nzjforestryscience.com/content/43/1/2 **************************************** SOUTHEM OPPORTUNITIES

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Bruna Gameiro writes: Suzano Pulp and Paper in Brazil is looking for professionals to fill the position Development Manager. We seek professionals with higher education, solid experience in development (collection, transportation, forestry, plantation), experience in negotiation and people management. Location: Mucuri / BA Professionals interested and meet the above requirements, please send CV updated to brunagameiro@suzano.com.br SOUTHEM KORERO BRAZILS FIMMA 2013 18 to 22 March 2013. Brasil. FIMMA 2013. International Fair of Machines, Raw Materials and Accessories for the Furniture Industry (Fimma Brazil) expect about 675 exhibitors, including national and international companies, and about 40,000 professional visitors. The 11th edition will be held in the Exhibition of Bento Gonalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. www.fimma.com.br PROTECTED AREAS AND PLACE MAKING 21-26 Apr 2013. Protected Areas and Place Making: How do we provide conservation, landscape management, tourism, human health and regional development? Fz Do Iguau (Pr), Brazil/ http://canjerana.esalq.usp.br/PAPM2013/doku.php FOREST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - EURO LEGAL ASPECTS 14-17 May 2013. 15th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of European Forest Sustainable Development. Tirana, Republic of Albania. First Announcement and Call for Papers. http:///www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-9/90000/90600/activities/ THIRD IUFRO LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS IUFRO and CATIE are organizing IUFROLAT 2013: the Third IUFRO Latin American Congress; San Jos, Costa Rica; 12-15 June 2013. Details tba. THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITYS 26TH SSP 2013 IN BRAZIL The 26th annual Space Studies Program (SSP) will be held at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) campus in So Jos dos Campos, Brazil in 2013. The dates of the session are 17 June through 16 August 2013. Official Website: http://www.isunet.edu/programs/space-studies-program Call for Applications: http://www.isunet.edu/how-to-apply-ssp Call for Fellowships: http://www.isunet.edu/funding-and-scholarships ARGENTINAE AND LATAM FORESTRY CONGRESS 23-28 September 2013. The fourth Argentina and Latin American Forestry Congress (Congreso Forestal Argentino y Latinamericano). Theme: Sustainable Forestry/Future Possible. City of Iguaz (Provincia de Misiones). http://www.congresoforestal.org.ar/ BRAZIL TO HOST 2015 WORLD STATS CONGRESS The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics will host in the second half of

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