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News Bharrat Jagdeo is president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana 21 September 2009 - A Copenhagen deal must enable countries like ours to generate an income by conserving forests rather than cutting them down
News A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environment Program SAO PAULO - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a new United Nations advocate for environmental awareness — and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.
News Alexey Savinov : “In times of global financial and economic crisis and globalization of economy, the role of state forest management is essential for the sustainable development of society and the attainment of the goals formulated in United Nations Millennium Declaration.”
News The second Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change will be held in Washington DC on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd October 2009.
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News Faidherbia albida Nairobi, Kenya - Scientists have said at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry that a type of acacia tree with an unusual growth habit-unlike virtually all other trees-holds particular promise for farmers in Africa as a free source of nitrogen for their soils that could last generations.
Nina Kolyako,Riga The Latvian fruit and vegetable processing company Pure Food will export 200 tons of specially prepared Latvian blueberries to China in September, as LETA learned from chairman of the board at Pure Food Aigars Balodis.
18 – 25 October 2009 - Buenos Aires - Argentina At its 128th session, the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) selected the Republic of Argentina to organize the XIII World Forestry Congress to be held from 18 to 25 October 2009 in the city of Buenos Aires. This event – held every six years – is expected to attract about 6 000 participants from more than 160 countries.
By Alan Boswell Nairobi - The authors of a new report released in Nairobi say that agricultural practices need not drive deforestation worldwide, but can instead be used to replenish the world's diminishing trees. The study used satellite imagery to find that nearly half of the world's crop lands also contain what it deemed as "significant" tree cover.
In the 2008 forestry year a total of 55.367m m3 (2007: 76.728m m3) roundwood was felled in Germany.
By Mariko Oi - BBC Asia Business Report One would not usually associate DNA tests with forests but in Singapore such a test has been developed for trees.
Washington - Russian scientists claim that genetically altered birch and aspen trees have successfully grown in half the time within greenhouse environments. Now, the scientists are moving outdoors in an attempt to curb deforestation in eastern Europe.
Welcome to the World Water Week in Stockholm August 16-22, 2009 The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.
With California in its third year of drought, concern over access to clean water is no longer limited to the developing world.
Estimates from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) show that 200 000 hectares of land in the EU have already burnt in 2009, compared to a total of 180 000 in 2008.
Fresh from the victory of the T20 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan hit another high by setting a Guinness World Record for planting 541,176 trees in 24 hours. The young mangrove saplings were planted by 300 volunteers on 15 July without using any mechanical equipment in the vast wetlands of the Indus River Delta in Thatta district.
News DUBLIN: Horse-drawn carts were banned from one of Ireland's most famous national parks Tuesday in an escalation of a long-running row about their refusal to use "nappies" to deal with the horse dung.
The German Government has given a 200,000 euros grant for the implementation of the International 'Forest Instrument.'
Forest owners and timber buyers amassed a record sum of 330,000 euros for the new machinery hall and exhibition at the Forest Museum Lusto.
TIANJIN, (Xinhua) -- Production by China's forestry industry rose 13 percent last year to 1.33 trillion yuan (194.7 billion U.S. dollars), a senior forestry official told a conference that ended Sunday.
BILLINGS, Mont.—A Colorado man used a chain saw to fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.
News Photo by ForestPress The Finnish and Hungarian Ministers of Agriculture, Sirkka-Liisa Anttila and József Gráf, met in Budapest on 15 July to discuss closer cooperation between the two countries with regard to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and to agree on separate bilateral development projects.
Basel-based agrichemical concern Syngenta has launched a five-year programme designed to help farmers by bringing bees and other pollinating insects close to fields.
Fifty-six Japanese regional banks, including the Bank of Kyoto, announced on April 14, 2009, that they have developed the FY2009 plan "Regional Bank Federation for Protecting Japanese Forests" to launch full-scale forest conservation activities.
