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A Climate change for forestry was the theme for the 6th International Forest Owners’ Congress arranged in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the International Family Forestry Alliance in Canberra 29 October 2008
News Pedro Gallego, a wine maker from Palencia, who found a huge mushroom in an oak forest on a hillside near Ziordia in Navarra, last week, says that such a magnificent specimen does not deserve to end up in the kitchen, and that he is thinking of contacting the Guinness Book of Records.
One of widely discussed at the meeting topics was an issue of efficient and comprehensive informing public about activities, conducted within the frames of Montreal Process. On November 6 at Federal Forestry Agency took place the next 19-th meeting of Montreal Process working group on criteria and indices of preservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests.
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences has got seven million SEK (circa 700,000 €) by the EU for further co-ordinating forest monitoring in Europe.
Forest Tech Europe 2008 is an international conference on emerging technologies for the forest industry in Europe. Forest Tech Europe recognizes the beneficial use of emerging technologies of the forest cluster and helps you to focus on the future of forest industry. Forest Tech Europe 2008 will take place on 5th - 6th November 2008 in Helsinki Fair Centre, Finland.
At present forests provide 1/3 of Danish total energy production. In 2007 a record of 2.6 million cubic metres of wood were felled in Denmark's forests. Despite of record level fellings, the quantity is only half of the biological annual growth of 5 million cubic metres. The felling exceeds the previous record from 2006 with 9 %.
Inside the covert war on illegal logging. by Raffi Khatchadourian October 6, 2008 The country is now the world’s largest importer of logs and exporter of finished wood products.
Regional authorities in northeast Spain Tuesday called for the removal of bears that were reintroduced to the Pyrenees mountains 12 years ago, after one of the animals attacked a hunter. The 73-year-old man needed stitches in his leg and arm after he was attacked by a bear as he was hunting wild boar with his dog on Thursday.
News The president of CEPF Christer Segersteen participated in the Global Forest Leaders Forum on Forests and Climate Change in Washington DC, on 16 and 17 September. The Forum addressed the most challenging forestry and climate change issues facing the international community. The aim of the meeting was to support the upcoming discussion on international negotiations and agreements, in particular the UNFCCC process.
The Faculty of Forestry of the University of Zagreb celebrates it’s 110th anniversary in 2008. On 20 October 1898, the Forestry Academy was founded as part of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. In 1948, the Wood Science and Technology Department was founded at the Faculty of Forestry, and it now celebrates its first 60 years of educating experts needed for the development of wood processing and furniture manufacturing in Croatia.
Mitigating the effects of climate change through sustainable forest management Rome – Europe’s forests are growing at the rate of about 360 million cubic metres annually, yet only two-thirds of this growth is being exploited. Given that forests are essential to the global energy balance, the vital role of forests in combatting climate change are among the major issues to be debated at the first-ever European Forest Week, taking place at FAO Headquarters from 20 to 24 October 2008.
News EU moves to crack down on illegal timber imports. Illegal logging destroys millions of acres of forest each year. Much of the timber ends up in Europe, one of the world’s largest markets for wood products like lumber, plywood and furniture. About 20% of these imports come from trees that were illegally felled.
This autumn circa 430 students started their studies for becoming forest machine drivers. This is over 20 % more than in previous years. The campaigns to attract young people, the support of various operators in the forestry branch, as well as the improved networking of forestry educational institutes are now giving results.
News 18th Oct. 2008. at 11 AM in the Vajdahunyad Castle Ferenc Sirman under-secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development opens the European Forest Week between 20-24th Oct.
Dear colleagues, the European Forest Week, held from 20 to 24 October 2008, will provide an umbrella for forest related events organized by different public and private organizations throughout Europe. In order to make these activites visible and accessible for all interested, a web site was established where it is now possible to publicize European Forest Week in-Country events by uploading relevant information directly onto the site. Maria Casa from FAO asked me to provide you with the following useful information in this regard.
25. of September 2008, 14:00 House of Austrian Agriculture and Forestry, Schauflergasse 6, 1014 Wien, meeting room, ground floor Proposed Agenda: 1. Welcome – short presentation of EFN 2. Country-reports 3. Austrian Forestry and the Forest-Dialogue
Ö S T E R R E I C H I S C H E R F O R S T V E R E I N 25. – 26. of september 2008, Vienna Program run: Thursday, Sept. 25th, EFN-Meeting Accommodation in Hotel Ibis, Schönbrunnerstraße 92, 1050 Wien, reservation under EFN and your name
There will be a follow up of the tax exemptions for timber trade proposed by the Finnish Government. The Government now intends to make forest conservation more attractive by means of tax relief.
The Norwegian government will donate USD 100 million this year and another USD 600 million next year to prevent deforestation in Brazil. A total of USD 1 billion will be spent by 2015.
Juhan Tere Tallinn - Investments into timber processing equipment in Estonia will be subsidised with 105 million kroons during the years 2007-2013, writes the National Broadcasting.
News Hannes Mäntyranta Behind the gloomy daily news much of concrete effort is put to the work for the future of forest sector. Intelligent packages are a good example.
CORVALLIS - An inspiration that began when an Oregon State University researcher watched mussels being pounded by ocean waves has now evolved into a new wood adhesive that is creating jobs for U.S. workers, drawing interest from all over the world and leading a major shift away from formaldehyde-based composite wood products.
The UNECE/FAO Timber Section has made available on its web site the complete set of provisional 2007 forest products data. Data include removals, production of sawnwood, panels, pulp and paper for over 60 items and trade in both value and volume for these items. Data cover the last five years and are provided for the UNECE region of Europe, the CIS and North America.
By Anne Blythe DURHAM - Duke Forest, the sylvan refuge for joggers, nature lovers, bird-watchers and environmental researchers, will soon become a firing range. In recent years, some parts of Duke University's 7,000-acre forest have been plagued by an overpopulation of white-tailed deer. With nearly four months of controlled hunts on four of the six sections of the forest, Duke hopes to thin the herd.
