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by Staff Writers London, UK - Low levels of invasion were in natural and semi-natural grasslands and most woodlands Biological invasions are one of the major threats to biodiversity and in many cases they have considerable impact on economy and human health. For their effective management it is important to understand which areas and ecosystems are at the highest risk of being invaded.
This 17-minute video presentation, produced by FAO and the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom, shows how much forests can contribute to the mitigation of climate change, stressing the importance of reversing forest loss.
News NABU (BirdLife in Germany) and their Bavarian partner - Landesbund für Vogelschutz (LBV) - have nominated Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis as their Bird of the Year 2009.
In the beginning of year 2009 an extensive joint Finnish-Swedish programme in forest technology (FIRST) will be launched in the form of a teaching institute for researchers. It will be managed by the Umea faculty of forestry of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and supported by the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.
by Staff Writers Beijing - A pair of Chinese forestry executives cheated thousands of investors out of 160 million dollars by selling off "timber lands" in a barren desert region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Chairman Chen Xianggui of Inner Mongolia's Wanli Afforestation Co. was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a court in the region while general manager Liu Yanying received nine years for the pyramid scheme, the report said.
Inside the covert war on illegal logging. by Raffi Khatchadourian October 6, 2008
MICHAEL POLLITT, EDP RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Woodland owners have enjoyed sparking results by investing in forests and trees in the past five years as prices have more than doubled in the past five years.
News This practice originates from the Ancient Britons who believed that trees had spirits.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has set a special deer hunt in northwestern Minnesota as part of its effort to fight the spread of bovine TB.
On Saturday morning (1th November), hundreds will gather in Bitterroot Valley (Montana, US) to officially kick off the season with caroling, speeches and good cheer as they watch the cutting of the 100-foot tall picture-perfect subalpine fir that will eventually end up on the U.S. Capitol’s west lawn.
News 1800s – The Christmas Tree was introduced in the United States by German settlers. It rapidly grew from tabletop size to floor-to-ceiling.
Jakarta - Reconstruction in areas of Indonesia's coastline devastated by the 2004 Asian tsunami is nearly complete four years after the disaster, a key group of international donors said Thursday. The Multi Donor Fund (MDF) of foreign nations and international financial institutions has paid out 334 million dollars of 692 million pledged since May 2005 to help tsunami-hit Aceh province and Nias island, a progress report said.
News The Montreal-based furniture retailer Domison recently revealed a specially commissioned design installation by the design studio Paprika. The ‘ice tree' by paprika was commissioned as a christmas decoration for the store's window installation. the tree is made from canadian mineral glass water bottles assembled together.
Poland plans to sell part of its surplus volume of emission credits to Ireland and the World Bank and spend the proceeds on cutting output of greenhouse gases.
Rome - $14.2 million pledged for food security, forestry and biofuel initiatives 3 December 2008, - Germany has pledged an extra $11 million to support various FAO projects in the fight against hunger. The new funds bring Germany's 2008 extrabudgetary contributions to $14.2 million - the largest amount Germany has ever committed to FAO in one programme year.
POZNAN — Sweden does the most of any country for tackling emissions of greenhouse gases, while Saudi Arabia does the least, according to a barometer published on Wednesday by watchdogs at the UN climate talks here.
News Christmas started early this year, as CEPF presented Mariann Fischer-Boel, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, with a Christmas tree. It has become a tradition, that the European private forest owners deliver a tree to start the holiday season in Brussels.
In the course of the winter 2008 - 2009 the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute will put collars on moose in various parts of Finland. Transmitter surveillance will provide more information about moose movements. This information will be exploited for regulating the moose population, as well as for preventing moose collisions and forest damage.
Our most popular survey, now in its 15th season, the Garden Bird Survey (GBS) helps us to keep track of the fortunes of Ireland’s garden birds. It has been running annually since the winter of 1994/95 and attracts over 1,000 submissions each year. As the Irish countryside changes, gardens are becoming increasingly important havens for many species, and it is vital for us to know how their populations are faring. The GBS does this not only by giving us a good idea of how our garden birds themselves are doing, but also an indication of how the environment is faring in general.
Finance will be high on the agenda in Poznań. The final touches are expected to be made that will allow the Adaptation Fund to become fully operational next year. Discussions will continue on the fourth review of the financial mechanism.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the next round of United Nations climate change talks which kick off in Poznan, Poland.
MACEDONIA: SKOPJE - Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive in the Balkan country.
Ivar Legallais-Korsbakken, Norway, was re-elected as chair of IFFA, the International Family Forestry Alliance. New on the Board is Natalie Hufnagl-Jovy, Germany.
Firewood may be supplied from the land managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the public in different ways: There may be a few historical rights or rights established by longstanding custom. These are rare and would only be found in some of our forests with very long history and traditions.
