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According to O Estado de Sao Paulo and the International Tropical Timber Organization, the European Union is considering a green-labeling program for certifying the origin of timber imports. The label is said to target widespread illegal logging in the Amazon. Europe about 47 percent of timber produced in the Amazon region. Presently forest certification is voluntary and has varying standards.
The annual meeting of the Norwegian Forest Owners' Federation on 4 June decided to present a resolution to the Norwegian Government requesting better framework conditions for producing bioenergy.
News Tigers kill about 20 people every year in Bangladesh, officials say. DHAKA - Thousands of villagers armed with sticks and machetes beat to death a Royal Bengal tiger Saturday after it killed three people in southwestern Bangladesh, police said.
Due to an increase in the wood pellets production capacities in Germany, prices tend to remain stable or even decline. The German Pellets Association (Deutscher Energie Pellet Verband/DEPV) counts on a production capacity of about 1.3 million tons of pellets in Germany for this year.
INDEPENDENT STUDY FINDS FEDERAL AGENCIES CONTROLLED COSTS DURING 2007 FIRE SEASON WASHINGTON D.C. – An independent panel study, conducted by The Brookings Institution, found that the Forest Service and Department of the Interior exercised appropriate fiscal diligence during the 2007 wildfire season. The panel reviewed the 27 wildfire incidents that each exceeded $10 million in the 2007 fire season, totaling $547 million in suppression costs and nearly 3 million burned acres.
News The CEPF Board convened on the 7th of May in Rimforsa (Sweden), followed by the CEPF General Assembly on the 8th of May. At the General Assembly, Mr. Stefan Schenker retired as President of CEPF and Mr. Christer Segerstéen was elected as the new President of CEPF.
Who is who? Canada's First Woman Timber Pathologist An original tree hugger Clara Fritz was nontraditional. She was equally at home in the woods or in the laboratory. But it was her love of trees that led her into her career studying tree diseases as Canada's first woman timber pathologist.
The State of Canada's Forests report looks at six women, from Canada's first female timber pathologist to today's foresters and business leaders, who have earned a place in the male-dominated field of forestry. This handful of specialists represents a growing and impressive group of women making their mark in forestry.
Lewis Smith London - A PROJECT to map every place in the world's second-largest tropical forest where trees have been cut down will be announced today. A purpose-built camera will be sent into space to record every clearing and logger's track in the Congo Basin in Africa to determine how much of the forest is left.
A more market oriented approach in the forest industry is the way to get out of the present crisis. This was the message of Mr Mikael Selling, partner and one of the founders of the company Opticom International Research, when he gave a speech in PricewaterhouseCoopers forest industry seminar in Vancouver in May.
A world-first software program, developed for the forestry industry, will soon be analysing new potato varieties. About 100,000 new potato varieties are developed by breeders across the globe every year, but only one or two have the right combination of characteristics to be commercialised.
News German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) receives a large chess piece from Michael Prinz zu Salm-Salm (L) AGDW-president, Prinz Michael zu Salm-Salm, explains that forest businesses are much more than the guardians of biodiversity.
Ethan Baron It's the season for B.C. residents to take to the province's roads for summer vacations. And it's the season when deer, elk, bears and moose come out to play.
REPORT of the 16th Meeting of the Forest Communicators Network May 13 – 15, 2008, Bilbao/Spain The 16th meeting of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network was hosted by the Basque Government, the Forest Service of Bizkaia and the Union of Southern European Foresters USSE. 43 people from 16 countries and 7 international organisations participated. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ingwald Gschwandtl from Austria, Leader of the FCN.
News The Czech Environment Ministry has raised the ire of people from a town near the Czech-Slovak border by announcing that it had secured half a billion crowns to build an overpass for bears over the motorway leading to Slovakia, because Slovak bears are allegedly crossing over to the Czech Republic and have no place to cross the road.
News The Nature Conservancy has helped China achieve a conservation landmark: the establishment of that country's first national park, which will also serve as a model for a new Chinese national park system. The new park — Pudacuo National Park in China's Southwest Yunnan Province — is located in one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China's land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country’s plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species.
News A local entrepreneur in northern Sweden is planning to build a giant artificial elk that will rise 45 meters from the ground. The elk will among other things house a restaurant and a concert arena. The 45 meter tall elk will be called Stoorn and it now seems like Thorbjorn Holmlunds old dream is about to become reality, according to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
There is no deforestation in Hungary since the Treaty of Trianon! WWF Hungary has announced that the representative of the Hungarian Ministry of Environment has signed the WWF’s huge billboard-sized postcard in Bonn together with the representatives of 63 countries in the international conference on the protection of biodiversity. It was a right action.
Building activity in the USA has decreased and so construction companies are purchasing less European timber Ivan Haluza Ten thousands of tree trunks have ended up in the Liptovska Mara lake. The fact that state owned company Lesy SR decided to store the timber in the reservoir as it could not sell it on the market represents a small revolution in the industry.
Alexandra Paul WINNIPEG -- The reeve for the municipality where the Manitoba's biggest forest fire raged this weekend blames an ATV derby and 600 four-wheelers roaring through the forest as the likely cause of the blaze.
London, (IANS) - A geographer has designed the first ever map showing how fires have scorched the earth every year since the turn of the millennium. The map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million square km of vegetation burns every year — or an area larger than the size of India.
News Informing the debate on the use and production of biofuels, this publication explores the relationship between forests and energy. It considers the present and future contribution of wood in the production of bioenergy as well as the effects of liquid biofuel crop development on forests. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
By Karlis Salna AN ABC website has been accused of portraying farmers and forestry workers as evil, and telling kids how much carbon they can produce before they die.
News Energy plantations are an increasingly popular source of biomass, but new crops require new technology, like specially developed planting machines. So how exactly do they work?
