Mid-sized apartment buildings, hospitals, schools and shopping centres are dominated by carbon or energy-intensive materials such as concrete, steel and brick. This needs to change, acc…

Since 2019, entomologists from the University of Sydney have reported on all-female, forest-dwelling drywood termite colonies in Japan. And their work recently uncovered how these termi…

In the first UK trials of their kind, trees are being grown to a height of 40 to 50 centimetres in just 90 days. Whenever Norwegian conifers such as Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, Scots pine, rowan, h…

FWPA is excited that, for the first time in twenty years, the International Research Group on Wood Protection (IRG) will host its annual meeting on Australian shores. The IRG54 meeting will b…

The results of an important $1 million, five-year study that investigated approaches to help maximise the productivity and profitability of African mahogany plantations in northern Aust…

Discover some of the exciting developments resulting from the local and international efforts of the FWPA-supported Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI) this year. The PBRI aims…

Two fact sheets developed to help mitigate potential incursions of new, high priority invasive pest species are now available to download online. These brief guides present specific infor…

Researchers have proposed a holistic approach to provide meaningful insights to support smart decision making for the future. Contemporary forest and wood products companies face a signi…