New Staff at the ICFR
Two new staff members have recently joined the ICFR team. Benice Sivparsad started at the ICFR on 1 September 2016, as a Senior Research Scientist in Forest Protection research. Benice will be working on existing Forest Protection projects with a specific focus on Eucalypt pests and pathogens. Benice has a PhD in Plant Pathology from […]
Seed bombing takes on a whole new dimension
If we’re lucky, seed bombing could jump to a whole new level of awesomeness. A fleet of unused and decommissioned C-130 Hercules cargo planes, originally created to drop land mines, could be recommissioned as foresters. Lockheed Martin and Aerial Forestation of Newton took an old rusty idea from former UK RAF pilot Jack Walters and […]
