News Tallest Christmas tree in Europe (ro.mykinda)
The Portuguese Millennium BCP Bank, along with Bucharest’s City Hall are building the tallest Christmas tree in Europe. The tree will be placed in Piata Unirii park.
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News A Prehistoric Forest Emerges From A Farmer's Pond (Sciencedaily)
by Staff Writers Houghton MI – Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond.
News Trade in recreational values promotes multiple use of forests (Nordic Family Forestry)
The Finnish traditional everyman rights give everybody an opportunity for recreation in the forests. Increasing out-door activities, hiking, nature oriented tourism and time spent in leisure time houses have created a need for new ways of co-ordinating the use and exploitation of forests and other natural areas.
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Britain to build world's biggest biomass plant (AFP)
by Staff Writers London Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be sited in the industrial town of Port Talbot on the south Wales coast. It will cost 400 million pounds (830 million dollars, 560 million euros) to construct.
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Uruguay shuts border point with Argentina (AFP)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay closed a second entry point on its border with Argentina to stop protestors crossing for a demonstration in an ongoing environmental dispute over a Finnish paper mill, the Uruguayan navy said Saturday. The order to close the General Artigas Bridge linking the two countries across the Uruguay River was given by Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez after Argentine protestors said they would head near the site of the mill, naval coast guard sources told AFP.
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Germans build wooded path to save wildcats (AFP)
EISENACH, Germany - German environmentalists on Thursday said they had begun building a densely wooded corridor for wildcats between two parks in a bid to save the species from extinction. The first ash tree was planted along a 1.2-kilometre-long (0.75-mile-long) path that will link the Hainich National Park in eastern Germany to the Thueringia forest, said Angelika Zahrnt, the head of the environmental federation BUND.
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Swedish-Chinese co-operation in the forestry sector (Nordic Family Forestry)
The Swedish Forest Agency will initiate co-operation with China. That was agreed when the Chinese Forest Minister Zhou Shengxian visited Sweden in order to make contacts and to study Swedish forestry. Mr Göran Enander, Director General of the Forest Agency, and Minister Shengxian signed a co-operation agreement.
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EU directive urges stop for new deciduous forests in Denmark (Nordic Family Forestry)
An absurd and misfortunate situation is evolving in Denmark. Owners of deciduous forests will be imposed with restrictions, costs and work without any compensation. Consequently, the forest owners are urged to plant conifers instead of deciduous trees.
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TREES "GOOD" FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
A new survey published today (Thursday November 15) reveals that the majority of Scots believe trees are "good" as they help in the battle against climate change. The survey, carried out by Forestry Commission Scotland, included over 1,000 interviews to find out what people in Scotland think about different aspects of forestry.
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Starved zoo tigers turn on each other (Reuters)
Tigers in a north China zoo that was too poor to properly feed them turned on each other, killing and eating one, zoo authorities said yesterday. "There is no money. Of course (the incident) was caused by a lack of food," a woman in the director's office at the Shenyang Bingchuan Wildlife Park told Reuters.
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Anniversaries in the forest (Seattle Times)
Washington's rich heritage of natural resources and the state economy's connection to healthy forests and productive lands are at the heart of two significant anniversaries being celebrated. The University of Washington College of Forest Resources is turning 100. Established in 1907, the program grew from eight undergraduate students and two graduate students to an enrollment of more than 700. The college was known as the School of Forestry until 1967.
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Seeking short term consultant with expertise in African forestry and carbon efforts
The Ecosystem Services unit of Winrock International is seeking 4 short term consultants (one expert for: West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and Central Africa) with expertise in and knowledge of existing forestry, reforestation, conservation, agroforestry, and carbon efforts in the respective region. A candidate with familiarity in the region’s terrestrial carbon projects is especially desired. Consultant must be available now as all work must be finished by mid January 2008.
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Bulgarians propose setting up Ecology Nobel Prize (RadioBulgaria)
Upon his death bed at the turn of the 20th century devastated by the atrocious use of his peace time invention of the dynamite for killing people in wars the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel set up a fund to award outstanding achievements in medicine and physiology, physics, chemistry, peace and literature. In the 1960s the Nobel Committee set up a sixth category – for economy.
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Native trees key to cooling climate (ABC Science Online)
Dani Cooper Extensive clearing of native trees is making Australian droughts hotter and is an under-recognised factor in climate change, research shows. The study by researchers from the University of Queensland and Queensland's Department of Natural Resources and Water shows that land clearing made the 2002-3 drought in eastern Australia 2°C hotter.
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Forests and Climate Change: A Convenient Truth? (ForestPress)
The crucial interaction between forests and climate change, and how forests and woodlands can contribute to tackling the problem, are not well recognised. With the help of some of the country’s leading experts, we will be exploring some of the issues, challenges and opportunities at a conference event in London on 21 November 2007.
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RESOLUTION 2 – Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forest in Europe (ForestPress
5-7 November, 2007, Warsaw, Poland Forests and Water Recognising the close interrelation between forests and water. Concerned that there is a growing imbalance between freshwater supply and demand.
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Minister Wallace announces additional support for wood energy supply chain (agriculture.gov.ie)
Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has introduced a second phase capital grant scheme worth approximately €0.6m to provide further support to developing enterprises in the wood chip supply sector.
News USDA FOREST SERVICE RELEASES FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN (ForestPress)
WASHINGTON — U.S. Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell announced today the release of the agency’s strategic plan for fiscal years 2007 – 2012. The plan includes Kimbell’s emphasis areas of climate change, water and involving youngsters in forest activities.
News Plan to shoot wild horses draws fire (The Edmonton Journal)
SYDNEY - Plans of an Australian state government to shoot more than 10,000 wild horses – called "brumbies" – to protect the environment were Sunday attacked by some animal rights activists. The groups say the vast overpopulation should have been dealt with years ago, and the cull is the result of years of brushing the issue under the carpet.
News Companion Trees (ForestPress)
This is actually the fifth time that Vermont has provided a tree to Washington, DC. Our state is continuing the tradition we began in 1967, 1980, 1982, 1994 and now 2007. Our tree is a balsam fir coming from the Green Mountain National Forest. What makes this especially exciting is that the Green Mountain National Forest is celebrating their 75th anniversary in 2007.
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Visit us at Agritechnica – the World’s no. 1
Visit us at Agritechnica – the World’s no. 1 – at the booth of company Geosat hall 16, no. D02 PROGIS will present: the most state of the art mobile logistic software “mobGIS” as it is in practical use for sugar beet harvesting by the German machine cooperatives commissioned by company Südzucker, for biomass logistics and as it could be used for forest-logistics and community/utility management AGROffice- DokuPlant, a modular software technology for modern farm management.
News Honduras determined to protect tropical forest (bmz.de)
The Parliament of Honduras has adopted a new law to protect the country's tropical forest. The Honduras National Congress thus took a good decision: even though Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, it will increase its efforts for forest protection in future. In that way, it is sending a signal against the destruction of tropical forests while simultaneously conserving its greatest natural resource.
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United Nations report on the state of global warming (Associated Press)
NEW YORK - If there's one document on global warming that policy makers might put in their briefcases, this would be it. Tomorrow, scientists and government officials will gather in Valencia, Spain, to put together the fourth and last United Nations report on the state of global warming and what it will mean to hundreds of millions of people whose lives are being dramatically altered.
News Outrage as timber baron walks free (Sidney Morning Herald)
Mark Forbes, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta IN THE latest and largest of a string of controversial acquittals, an Indonesian timber baron has walked away from illegal logging charges, prompting an outcry from environmentalists. The release of Adelin Lis undermines moves by Indonesia for the United Nations climate change conference in Bali to back a multi-billion-dollar program to prevent deforestation.
