No job too big for the Kawasaki full 2021 MULE and ATV Range
With demand for the Kawasaki MULE and ATV machines soaring, the 2021 range is available now from the extensive Kawasaki utility dealer network. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the shutdown of production lines, demand for the Kawasaki utility range has remained strong and the brand is pleased to announce the availability of its full 2021 […]
Gove: Tree planting rates have not been good enough
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has given a strong indication that the Government’s 25 year plan for the environment, due in the New Year, will tackle the issue of woefully low tree planting. Speaking at the Woodland Trust’s parliamentary launch on Wednesday (December 6) of a series of essays outlining its vision for a post Brexit […]
Elgan Pugh crowned STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® British Champion 2017
The picturesque surroundings of BBC Countryfile Live at Blenheim Palace played host to an action-packed STIHL TIMBERSPORTS ® British Championship on Saturday 5th August, where Welsh local Elgan Pugh came, sawed and conquered to take home the top prize in a nail biting event. Now in it’s fifth year, the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS ® British Championship […]
New Forest organisations call on Government to support commoners, Verderers, farmers and landowners in ‘Green Brexit’
New Forest organisations presented Defra Minister Lord Gardiner with a paper outlining how future agricultural schemes could protect the unique Forest environment. They have put the case for a locally managed and led support scheme to be put in place post 2020 to build on how commoners, Verderers and landowners already work together to protect […]
DM Hall’s rural specialist is appointed to manage Cashel, the ‘Forest for a Thousand Years’
Baird Lumsden, the specialist rural department of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, has been given the responsibility of managing Cashel Forest, where 3000 acres of hillside are being transformed using sound forestry practice into native working Scottish woodland. The firm has been instructed to act as factors and manage the spectacular property for three years until […]
Volvo Penta signs deal with OEM Rottne to supply engines for forestry machines
Volvo Penta has teamed up with Swedish OEM Rottne Industri AB to supply 8-liter engines for one of its forestry forwarder machines. The deal will see Volvo Penta extend its reach in the forestry industry and allow Rottne Industri to gain access to new markets through the Volvo Group’s dealerships. Forestry equipment manufacturer, Rottne Industri, […]
Asia Forestry Summit opens
Key forestry experts from governments, the private sector and NGOs gathered today for the opening of the Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit 2016 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. Regional leaders reinforced the importance of working in partnership between governments, private sector, forest scientists and communities towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the Paris […]
‘Don’t just make plans – open opportunities’
A call for strategic decisions and actions, not just strategies was at the heart of the high-level ThinkForest seminar on the bioeconomy, which was held in Helsinki on 7 June. The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs, Olli Rehn, placed forests at the centre of a sustainable, flexible European bioeconomy, ‘the next economic wave’. ‘It’s a […]
New Vision for England’s urban forest
England’s National Forestry Forum will be challenged to play their part in growing the importance, protection and size of England’s urban forest today following the publication of ‘Our Vision for a resilient urban forest’. Hosted by Defra and the Forestry Commission the forum is the chance for more than 60 forestry organisations and individuals to hear […]