News FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference Oslo 2011 opened (ForestPress)
HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway today (14 June) officially opened the FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe in Oslo, Norway.
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Britain has more woodland than it thought, new data shows (ForestPress)
Great Britain has more woodland than previous estimates indicated, according to provisional results from the National Forest Inventory.
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Illegal logging website survey
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to take part in a survey of our illegal logging website
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The Online Information Bulletin of The Global Forest Science Network Issue 4/2011
News FCN Annual Meeting – 2011 – Budapest (ForestPress)
Photo - ForestPress 14.04. 2011 - The Annual Meeting 2011 of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network (FCN) ended in field trips.
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The Online Information Bulletin of The Global Forest Science Network
Dear Reader of IUFRO News: We are happy to present to you the third issue of IUFRO News in 2011.
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The UNECE To S have a request for you please
31. 03. 2011. - At last years Timber Committe meeting there was a strong level of demand expressed by Member States of the UNECE in the area of legislation to control illegal logging.
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The 6th European Forest pedagogy Congress
15-03-2011 - Dear colleagues, dear friends of Forestpedagogy in Europe, as announced during our 5th European Congress in Lahti (Oct. 2010), the 6th European Forest pedagogy Congress will take place in Freising (Germany, Bavaria) from the 25th - 27th of July 2011. The preliminary programme of the 6th Congress is online on our homepage forestpedagogics.eu in German and English language. Look: http://www.forestpedagogics.eu/index.php/annual-congress/2011-freising-germany
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FOREST EUROPE photo exhibition (ForestPress)
02-03-2011 - Crown Prince Haakon of Norway participated in the national launch of the International Year of Forests yesterday, at the Nordic Ski Championship Holmenkollen 2011 in Oslo, Norway.
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COMMUNICATIONS TEAM LEADER
The European Forest Institute is now seeking a COMMUNICATIONS TEAM LEADER for its FLEGT and REDD Unit
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COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT
The European Forest Institute is now seeking a COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT for its FLEGT and REDD Unit
News Ninth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (ForestPress)
24 January 2011 - 24 January - 4 February 2011, New York, USA Organiser: UNFF Secretariat
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Good mood among the Swedish forest owners (Nordic Forestry)
This year, 66 percent of the Swedish forest owners state that they are satisfied with the profitability of forestry.
Press room The next annual meeting of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network
Dear colleagues, The next annual meeting of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network (FCN) will take place from12 to 14 April 2011 in Budapest, Hungary, kindly hosted by the Hungarian Forestry Association. Please find attached a first draft agenda.
Press review Forests, people and wildlife
Unasylva No. 236 Vol. 61, 2010/3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2010 Contents
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Strong numbers from Nordic wood production industry (Nordic Forestry)
Nordic wood industries announced figures of strong growth this year. In Norway the production of lumber in January-September 2010 grew 15 per cent compared to year 2009. The production of conifer-sawn timber grew 8 per cent in Sweden and as much as 27 per cent in Finland.
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The Norwegian Forest Owners are now on Facebook (Nordic Forestry)
The Norwegian Forest Owner Federation has created its own Facebook web page.
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Russian bears treat graveyards as 'giant refrigerators' (guardian.co.uk)
A shortage of bears' traditional food near the Arctic Circle has forced the animals to eat human corpses, say locals
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FIRST SERBIAN FORESTRY CONGRES
ON THE OCCASION OF JUBILEE MARKING 90 YEARS OF ITS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND PROFFESIONAL ENGAGEMENT, FORESTRY FACULTY ORGANISES THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE FIRST SERBIAN FORESTRY CONGRES under slogan: -FUTURE WITH FORESTS-
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Remember Renewable Energy? (The New York Times)
October 27, 2010 - Global warming, energy independence and good 21st-century jobs are three compelling reasons why Washington must do a lot more to promote renewable energy.
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The consequences of dry Finnish summer become visible with delay (Nordic Forestry)
(07/10/2010) - Summer 2010 was unusually dry and warm in Southern half of Finland. The effects on vegetation and trees will become visible in thenear future writes the Finish Forest Research Centre.
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Green Party lobbies against NSW biomass plant (ttjonline.com)
A New South Wales woodchip processor has accused the Green Party of misleading the public about its plans for a biomass power plant in the Australian state.
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Putin sacks forestry agency chief for laxity in checking fires (zeenews.com)
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Friday sacked the chief of Russia's forestry agency, who came under severe criticism for failures to check wildfires in the country which left 50 people dead and left hundreds of thousands of hectares of land ablaze.
