F o r f u r t h e r i n f o r m - a t i o n , contact Ross Stanway, Business D e v e l o p m e n t Manager, Rotorua District Council. Phone: (07) 348 for cluster members and will also 4199; Fax: (07) 350 0182; e k a i l : enable i n w a r d t r a d e l i n v e s t m e n t rstan@rdc.govt.nz

Rotorua Forest Industry Cluster Group

Argentina www.mecon,ar/default.htm Asia ARBEC www.arbec.com.my Australia www.affar.au/home.html Austria www.bmlf.gv.at

Brazil www.brazil.gov.br/inicio.htm Canada www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/cfs e.html Northern Forest Research and Extension Partnership http://otaku.unbc.ca/nfrep Chile

Conaf www.conaf.cl

Instituto Forestal de Chile http://www.infor.cl China www.asianet.com/china/csti-mof' Costa Rica

CATIE (Tropical Agriculture Research and Education Center)

www.catie.ac.cr

Fiji www.fiji.gov.fj/m agriclt/index.html Forest fires www,uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe For kids www.foresters.org/kidz

France www.afocel.fr Germany www.bml.de

Global Forest Watch www.wri.org/gfw/

index.htm1

Greenplan www.greenp1an.co.n~

Guyana

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development www.sdnp.org.gy/iwokrama

India www.nic.in/envfor

Indian Institute of Forest Management : http://education.vsnl.com/deep/index.html Various forestry books

www.vedamsbooks.com/forestry.htm Ireland wwu7.irlgov.ie

Japan

Maruhon www.maruhon.com Malaysia www.forestry.gov.my NZ Journal of Forestry

www.forestry.auburn.edu/people.faculty/

biology/south/nz/nzone.html

www.canterubry.ac.nz/fore/nzif/home.html www.southernhemisphereforestry,co.nz/nzjof/

New Zealand MAF www.maf.govt.nz

Neilson Scott www.nzforestrp.co.nz Fletcher Challenge L t d www.fc1.co.n~

Evergreen Forests Limited www.evergreen.co.nz

P F Olsen & Co u~ww.pfo1sen.nzforestry.co.n~

Roger Dickie (NZ) L t d www.rogerdickie.co.nz

Far North Afforestation Ltd www.fna.co.nz Forest Research www.forestresearch@cri.nz Russia [Forestry Club] http://cci.glasnet.ru/

forest-club

South Africa www-dwaf.pwv.gov.za/idwaf Southern Hemisphere Forestry

www.southernhemisphereforestry.co.nz/

Sri Lanka www.lk/Government.html United Kingdom www.forestry.gov.uk CAB International http://tree.cabweb.org United Nations (FAO) www.fao.org United States of America www.fx.fed.us Rayonier www.shareholder.com/rayonier World Stewardship Council

www.ecostewards.org/

0 ngoing consultation with t h e Rotorua Forest Industry Cluster through the Business Development Unit of the Rotorua District Council has led to a decision to transfer the industry capability (Access) database on to a website.

T h e website development will enable global access and opportunities

inquiries to be triggered. Similarly, it will also have the facility for users to click directly to cluster members' H o m e Pages for m o r e detailed information.

F o r f u r t h e r i n f o r m - a t i o n , contact Ross Stanway, Business D e v e l o p m e n t Manager, Rotorua District Council. Phone: (07) 348 for cluster members and will also 4199; Fax: (07) 350 0182; e k a i l : enable i n w a r d t r a d e l i n v e s t m e n t rstan@rdc.govt.nz

Indicative MAF Log Prices

Generic Log Type June 99

b y the M i n i s t r y o f Agriculture a n d Forestry for the June Quarter 1999.

R e t u r n s t o s m a l l growers m a y be lower than those recorded here owing t o scale a n d buyers' margzns. These log prices are historical a n d

I I

EXPORT (NZ$ per JAS m3 f.0.b.)

The log prices shown

Pruned Unpruned A Grade Unpruned J Grade Unpruned K Grade Pulp

indicative only, and m a y not correspond to actual

DOMESTIC (NZS per tonne delivered at mill)

& Pricing Point

PI

prices paid, or grades used, i n market transactions. The

I I

SI s 2 L1 and L2 53 and ~3 Pulp

I

L n p u n s d A Grade

1

^106-112

1

^99-113

1

^93-119

1

^104-107

180-1 98 104-1 07 70-89 72-83 54-62

P2

r = rev~sed

I

Unpruned J Grade

1

^64-84

1

^{61 85}

1

^{78 89}

1

^{70 89}

June 1999 Quarter

21 3r 112r 89r 83r 49r

145-1 80

90-101 78-90 52-86 45-62 28-39

Genenc Log Q p e & Pncmg Pomt

12-~uarter Median

i n these tables are reported

177

108-1 45 136

99 88 67 66 40

EXPORT (NZ$ per J l S m3 f.o.b.1

Sep 1998 Quarter

'npr~med K Grade Pulp

NZ JOURNAL OF FORESTRY, AUGUST 1999

prices are subject to changes when further data becomes available. The sources for t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n are M i n i s t r y o f Agriculture a n d Forestry i n d u s t r y

S2 L1 and L2 S3 and L3 Pulp

Dec 1998 Quarter

60 76 14-48

8 - 9 5 57-83 45-60 30-38

March 1999 Quarter

53-87 11--18

June 1999

71-100 65-75 56-79 30-40

52-92 17-51

72-83 51-62

7 1-97 50-72 56-80 27-39

78-90 52-86 45-62 28-39