People are increasingly looking to invest their money in areas of woodland in order to reap the benefits of growing and selling wood. [more]

Greater investment in forests and forestry needs to be encouraged in the UK, according to a new report from the Country Land and Business Association (CLA). [more]

As a result of a good business environment and great growing conditions, European forestry firms have been increasingly looking to the South American country of Uruguay to grow their trees. As a result, analysts think there could be enough investment to support the running of several new pulpmills in the coming years. [more]

Soil and land resource scientist, Sherif Fahmy, has discovered that waste pulp from wood pulp and paper mills can be used very effectively as plant fertilizer. [more]

According to Shanghai security news, additional provisions for China’s forestry industry are to be provided by a number of government departments. [more]

In a bid to safeguard 450,000 jobs and increase production in France’s forestry business, President Sarkozy has assigned between EUR100 million and EUR150 million to help the industry. [more]

US Energy firm, Range Fuels, has joined forces with AMEC to develop its first plant that produces biofuels from timber waste on a commercial scale. [more]

City investors used to view green investment funds as a ‘fringe’ investment and, in turn, as rather unprofitable. However, this is all changing and major investors are beginning to realise that ‘green’ can also mean ‘returns’. [more]

Catchlight Energy is a new collaboration between forestry giant, Weyerhaeuser Co and oil firm Chevron Corporation, set up to concentrate on developing bio fuels from trees. [more]

Last month the UK energy department announced generous subsidies for companies that produce power using biomass — plant and organic waste — instead of coal or gas. The result is a spike in the number of new biomass plants being proposed for construction. [more]