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News Brussels – During the forum on „Economic importance of forests in an enlarged Europe – the socio-economic prospects of forestry“ the forest-timber sector closed ranks in front of the European institutions, to emphasize the strengths and shortcomings of a European forest model.
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth today appointed Dr. Deanna J. Stouder as the national director of wildlife, fish, watershed and air research. The wildlife, fish, watershed and air research staff, which is a part of the agency's research and development deputy area, enhances understanding of organisms, populations, ecosystems, and ecological processes. Information provided by this research is crucial to helping the agency comply with requirements of key environmental statutes, including the National Forest Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.
News UBC Vancouver HONG KONG – The University of British Columbia established a dynamic regional presence when President Martha Piper opened the UBC Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) here today. A Canadian university first, the APRO is permanent, and mandated to serve the entire region. “The University of British Columbia is delighted to announce its new, and expanded home in the Asia Pacific region,” Dr. Piper told a Hong Kong audience as she opened the APRO today. “UBC has a longstanding commitment to Asia-related study and research. The APRO will help UBC build and enhance existing, academic, government, and private sector partnerships throughout Asia while serving its students and alumni.”
News Many initiatives on the program from 21st to 29th May in the Italian Parks As every year, the initiative of the European Federation of Parks repeats itself, to remind the day when in 1909 the first European park was established in Sweden. This date has without a doubt a great symbolic value, and for this reason it is celebrated throughout Europe.
News A 2.2m pounds project to restore a forest that was left behind after the last Ice Age is due to be launched. The 58 woodlands of Atlantic oak in Meirionnydd are home to more than 1,000 native species of flora. They were once part of the forest on the Atlantic coasts stretching from northern Scotland to Portugal. More than 4,000 acres of the woodlands will be looked after in a project aimed at restoring some of the character first created 14,000 years ago.
News By CLAIRE KONKES TASMANIA has joined a world-wide program to save endangered wild plants by storing their seeds in a global bank. The Millennium Seed Bank Project has operated from the heritage Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom since 2000. Funded by the UK national lottery, the project aims to safeguard from extinction 24,000 plant species from around the world by 2010. The program has already secured the future of virtually all the UK's native flowering plants.
News By DAN NEPHIN PITTSBURGH - Even though they don't have wings, 15 eggs were flying to Russia on Monday. The eggs - 12 from the endangered red-crown crane and three from the threatened white-naped crane - are being sent by the National Aviary in Pittsburgh as part of a reintroduction program.
Forestschools 27th June 2005, Dumbleton Hall Worcestershire Forest Schools have been an integral part of Early Years Education in Denmark since the 1980s. The philosophy of Forest School was based upon a desire to provide young people with an education which encouraged appreciation of the natural world and which would encourage responsibility for nature conservation in later life. Using the outdoor environment, children and students are encouraged and inspired to grow in confidence, independence and self-esteem through the mastery of small achievable tasks.
News QEII (Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre) - London Research projects to make living more energy efficient currently have great interest. Much knowledge has been gathered indeed in recent years through various demonstration projects, but a final breakthrough has yet to come. This is especially true for affordable, sustainable concepts for the cheaper dwellings. To develop such concepts, a number a research institutes and market players have joined forces, united in Ecobuild Research. Through research in three Ecobuild dwellings (named A, B en C), built on the ground of the Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), the consortium hopes to find the way to sustainable living comfort.
News Photo by Ferenc Gerely By Nick Hawton Sarajevo – Thousands of illegal loggers already end up in court in Bosnia In the remote mountains and forests of Bosnia, the illegal traders are busy at work. Stripping down the country's most precious resource, wood, loading it on to lorries and selling it on to the highest bidder. And it is big business. International investigators estimate that the Bosnian economy loses about $100m every year to through tax evasion and corruption in the industry.
News Finland came out winner in a comparison of environment conservation policy made by the Yale and Columbia universities. The finding of this American study is that Finland is a model country in respect of sustainable development. Norway placed second and Sweden third.
News CARBON EXPO 2005: The world’s only trade fair and conference for emissions trading and the carbon market closed this Friday on what has been defined by participants as an extremely successful event Industry showed great interest in the emissions trading market Outstanding participation: More than 1500 trade fair and conference visitors (2004: 700) and 134 exhibiting companies (2004: 50) from 87 countries (2004: 58) were in Cologne.
News AS FORUM ON FORESTS MEETS AT HEADQUARTERS 16 - 27 MAY More than 300 government officials, including 40 ministers responsible for forests will meet at United Nations Headquarters for the fifth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests from 16-27 May, in order to review the effectiveness of the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF) and to consider future action on forest issues.
News BUCHAREST - The UN called on Friday on southeast European countries to take urgent steps to reduce the environmental threat from hundreds of old and abandoned mines from the communist era. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said studies had shown old sites and also operational mines might be contaminating water supplies and the air. "There are tens of such sites in each country, so it could add up to hundreds in the region," Philip Peck, an UNEP consultant, told Reuters from the Romanian city of Cluj where UNEP is holding a seminar on mining and the environment.
News Hungarian Forestry Association will have its 136th Itinerary Meeting 20 to 21 May 2005, organised by Szombathely Forestry Rt. in Western Hungary. The very first meeting of this kind was held in Budapest in 1866. It has developed into the most expanded meeting of those involved in foresty, where nearly one thousand specialists are meeting this year.
News The proportion of women among Finnish forest owners is increasing. Statistics indicate that one third of forest owners are women. However, their real number is much higher when deceased persons' estates and their co-owners are included. Women show increased interest in tending their forests.
News Festival in the forest, July 16- 24, 2005 In recent years collaboration has developed between artists and forest specialists joined by people supporting culture and concerned for the forest, said Lajos Szabó, forestry engineer, the father of the idea “The Woods Sound Music” to Forestpress. The Mátra Days of Arts aim to provide useful recreation activities to the public (living in the region, and tourists), linked to music and the forest. The programs will begin on July 16th , 3 p.m. with the opening ceremony in the park of Kisterenye Palace, where László Pallagi, general director of Egererdő Rt. and Gábor Vanya mayor of Bátorterenye address the gathering. Most programs will have open air sites (at the western part of the Mátra hills, in 9 communities.).
News Caterpillar control in Hungary continues Frigyes Nagy Veszprém county department leader at Hungarian Forest Service says systematic spaying has been started as a move of protection against gypsy moth in the area. The target spots may slightly change due to weather conditions and leaf–growth. No protection can be done, however, in some areas where for the continual caterpillar chew trees are unable to bring shoots.
News Tim Radford, science editor British-based scientists are aiming to occupy the high ground of biology. Five giant cranes - each carrying an observation post and scientific laboratory - will tower over the treetops of rainforests in Brazil, Ghana, Madagascar, India and Malaysia in a $17m (?9m) attempt to explore one of life's most mysterious frontiers, the canopy. The forest treetops are where the sun, rain and living things first meet. An estimated 40% of all terrestrial species are to be found more than 70 feet up, where the first wispy leaves and twigs compete for solar energy.
News German expert urges better water conservation A German water expert says not enough is being done to conserve the resource in Australia. Ralph Otterpohl has addressed the Ozwater convention in Brisbane, which is being attended by over 2,500 international delegates. Professor Otterpohl says Australia lags behind Europe in conservation technology, especially in the home.
News From Forest Policy Education Network Building Momentum 2005 is a historical year for the forests and the education agenda of the United Nations. The UNESCO as lead agency launches the “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014” and the International Agreement on Forests (IAF) will decide at the fifth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) on its future framework and structure.
By Jonathan Amos Britain has made good progress in trying to preserve some of its rarest wild plants, but it has largely failed to halt widespread species decline. That is one key message to come out of the new Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain, published by a coalition of botanists. The report represents the most comprehensive assessment to date of the state of the UK's flora.
News The European Investment Bank (EIB), in line with the Baltic Sea environmental objectives of its first lending mandate for Russia, lends EUR 40 million to the Russian Federation for the completion of the St Petersburg Flood Protection Barrier. This project will serve to protect the city of St Petersburg against the risk of flooding resulting from storm surges in the Gulf of Finland.
By John Heilprin WASHINGTON — The last 58.5 million acres of untouched national forests, which President Clinton had set aside for protection, were opened to possible logging, mining and other commercial uses by the Bush administration today. New rules from the U.S. Forest Service cover some of the most pristine federal land in 38 states and Puerto Rico. Ninety-seven percent of it is in 12 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
