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Prague - Czech wood output rose by 14 percent to 17.68 million cubic metres last year, the highest amount since 1946, according to data the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) provided to CTK.
News TAELLBERG, Sweden – Some 500 politicians, scientists, business leaders and aid workers from 60 countries gathered in a small Swedish forest town this past week to discuss innovative ways of tackling climate change.
Dear Colleague, On behalf of the EcoArmenia alliance, I am sending the June 27 news release below and attached, about a groundbreaking new study by the Yerevan-based Economy and Values Research Center on deforestation and illegal logging in Armenia.
Brussels – European Union responds swiftly to combat forest fires in Greece Within minutes of receiving an assistance request from Greece for help in fighting forest fires the European Commission activated its civil protection network. Within two hours of the request Italy, France and Portugal had offered a total of 5 Canadair fire-fighting aircraft.
The MG WOMEN would like to re-emphasize the critical importance of women’s contributions to the implementation of the NLBI and MYPOW, as well as the Millennium Development Goals, The Major Group WOMEN has, over the past several years, compiled priority areas for action and proposed achievable goals and targets in discussion papers submitted to the UNFF 3, 4 and 5.
News CANBERRA - Hundreds of Australian farmers have begun cutting down protected trees on their properties to protest against strict land-clearing laws designed to help the country curb its rising greenhouse gas emissions.
News KUCHING – Gangsters have been blamed for the illegal logging in Sarawak. Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said gangsters were targeting wildlife sanctuaries and areas along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border.
News Secretary Kempthorne: The Eagle has Returned Secretary Kempthorne emphasized the ongoing commitment of the Interior Department and the entire federal government to the eagle's continued success, noting that bald eagles will continue to be protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
By SHARON LING KUCHING: A man suspected of intimidating a reporter and a photographer for covering a story on seized illegal timber has been arrested by police. The suspect, in his 30s, was picked up in Kota Samarahan near here on Friday afternoon.
HELSINKI - The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday Finland broke some EU rules in granting licences to hunt wolves, prompting the Nordic country to say it would attempt to show culling protects livestock.
Forestry, health and local authorities today launched a joint plan to try to eradicate from London a recently arrived moth that threatens Britain's oak trees and human health. And they want the public to help by reporting sightings of the caterpillars (the moth's larval stage) or its nests.
News PAUL FOY Chad Shimmin of the Utah Wildlife Resources tries to pick up a signal of tracking dogs as he helps search for a bear in American Fork Canyon Monday, June 18, 2007. The bear mauled and killed a 11 year old boy as he slept in his tent Sunday.
Metsäliitto Leading European Wood Products Innovation Award to Finnforest Kerto. The leading European innovation award within the wood products industry, the Schweighofer Prize, has been given to Professor Matti Kairi and Finnforest Kerto Laminated Veneer Lumber products.
HANOI – Vietnam, once rich in forest resources, is now forced to import more than 80 per cent of its timber supplies from abroad, making the country one of the world's biggest importers. Timber is big business. At present there are more than 3,000 firms using it for furniture, wood craft, construction, paper and cardboard. The list of manufacturers is still growing fast.
ZAGREB – The World Bank said it had signed on Wednesday a 100 million-euro (131 million-dollar) loan agreement with Croatia to help the Adriatic country manage its water resources. The funds would "support government efforts to improve water supply and water collection and treatment services, as well as flood protection measures," the bank said in a statement.
There is 320,000 square km of land threatened by desertification in China, a State Forestry Administration (SFA) official said on Sunday. "From 2001 to 2004, the area of sandy land shrank by 1,283 square km each year, but desertification is still menacing some parts of China," Wang Xinjian, deputy director of the SFA's Desertification Prevention Center, said at a seminar held in Shanghai on curbing desertification.
News This was the first National Park to be set up in Greece (1937) and is one of the longest- established in the world. It contains approximately 1,700 species of plant, including some rare and even unique examples of wild flowers.
Dear Forest-L readers: The APFED Secretariat is pleased to inform you that we have extended the deadline for applications of the APFED Ryutaro Hashimoto Awards 2007. The new closing date for application is 26 June 2007. 1. Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Awards for Good Practices APFED is pleased to invite all eligible organisations that have made contributions to the promotion of sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific to apply for the 2007 Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Awards. The applications that satisfy the eligibility requirements and that qualify by means of a peer-review will be registered in the APFED database. After a comprehensive evaluation process, winners will be presented with monetary awards. These awards are the Gold Prize (1xUSD 20,000), the Silver Prizes (2xUSD 7,000) and the Incentive Prizes (5xUSD 2,000).
News Dubbed the country's "Green Great Wall" the Sanbei Forest Shelter project which includes north, northeast and northwest China has made a significant contribution to improving and conserving the ecological environment in these areas since it got underway 28 years ago.
News The latest issue of EFI News focuses on Mediterranean forests with the insight of the Guest Editors Marc Palahí and Yves Birot. Other topics include Russian export tariffs and the role of prescribed burning in mitigating CO2 emissions.
News Picos de Europa is the first Spanish National Park to receive this classification. Its origin dates back to 1918, when don Pedro Pidal, Marquis of Villaviciosa, helped establish the law to create Monta?a de Covadonga National Park. Since 30 May 1935, it has been called Picos de Europa National Park.
News The massive export tariffs that Russia plans to impose on raw timber have become a major stumbling block in negotiations between the European Union and Russia on Russia's possible membership in the World Trade Organisation, Helsingin Sanomat reports.
News A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else in the world has been found on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Two specimens of the newly-named Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeincichii) were discovered by researchers on the Isle of Arran.
ZURICH - Swiss troops are on standby to help clear up a trail of destruction in northern Switzerland after flash floods inundated villages and drowned three people on Saturday. An elderly woman died in the village of Eriswil, in Switzerland's picturesque Emmental region, when her home was engulfed and a couple were also swept to their deaths in the nearby hamlet of Huttwill after a river burst its banks.
