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News Transportation of wood based fuels by waterways (Nordic Forestry)
A project has been initiated in Finland for investigating the question if transportation of wood based energy by waterways would be a working and financially advantageous alternative. One aspect of the project is to find out if waterway transport could be a better alternative than truck transport.
News Russia's Natural Resourses Minister Trutnev chaired the first meeting ofthe Forestry Board (ForestPr
On February 27, 2007, Russia's Natural Resources Minister Trutnev chaired the first meeting of the Forestry Board (Lesnaya Kollegia) at the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia.
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Rhino has big job: saving his species (AP)
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task – to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction. The 5-year-old rhino, Andalas, traveled from the Los Angeles Zoo in the United States to Jakarta's international airport on a two-day journey. The rhino was fed fresh green leaves upon arrival in the tropical island nation.
News EU Gives Poland a Week to Stop Work around Endangered Habitat (Associated Press)
BRUSSELS – The European Union said Wednesday it has given Poland a week to stop work on a highway running through a unique protected habitat in a test case of how the new EU member states deal with environmental issues. "We don't accept irreversible damage," EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told reporters. If the Polish government does not back down in a week, Dimas said he will seek an injunction from the EU's highest court to suspend the highway project.
News One Planet - One Heart - 8 Million Trees
News from the Campaign Tree-nation.com is a new community website, run by an international team, based in Barcelona, Spain. Together with you, they will create a park by planting 8 million trees in the shape of a giant heart in the Saharan desert, to fight Poverty, Global Warming and Desertification.
News Search for sedge species starts (BBC)
The UK public is being called upon to help hunt for a rare grass-like plant. Botanists recently discovered a species of sedge growing on the west coast of Scotland that had never before been seen in Britain. Saltmarsh sedge, or Carex salina, is found along the coast of Scandinavia, northern Russia and the eastern seaboard of North America.
News Spanish Order Higher Fences to Protect Rare Lynx (REUTERS)
Story by Sonya Dowsett MADRID - Builders will erect three-metre (nine-foot) high fences along a strip of road around a national park in southern Spain to stop rare Iberian lynx ending up as road kill, the Andalusian local government said on Friday.
News BULGARIA’S POTENTIAL FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PRODUCTION HIGH-MINISTER (sofiaecho.com)
Bulgaria has significant potential for the development and use of renewable energy sources and bio-fuels, Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Valentin Ivanov said. A law regulating the utilisation of such energy sources was currently being drafted, Ivanov said.
News The right tree for a dry place (ForestPress)
ICRAF presents 20 years of research on trees and water Communications Unit Ever increasing water scarcity across the world has triggered a heated debate: Does planting trees ease or worsen water shortages? Last year, an article in the Economist, quoting research from the University of Newcastle, in Britain, and Free University in Amsterdam, argued that planting trees can exacerbate droughts.
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Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Dear Forests-L readers, The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is due to start its Fourth Phase Strategic Programme from April 2007 following the conclusion of the Third Phase (from April 2004 to March 2007).
News The Billion Tree Campaign (ForestPress)
"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope" – Wangari Maathai France Joins the Billion Tree Campaign Paris, 18 January 2007 - From Paris, France, the United Nations Environment Programme launches a second appeal to the international community to join its first global tree planting project Plant for the Planet: the Billion Tree Campaign.
Sports Swiss plan to put lid on skiing (swissinfo)
Switzerland's ski industry is contemplating opening the country's first indoor ski area to encourage more young people living in urban areas to take up the sport. According to the Swiss association of mountain lift companies, the number of youngsters who know how to ski or snowboard is decreasing by about ten per cent a year.
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ForLive Highlights
Dear friends and colleagues, While wishing all of our friends and colleagues a happy and successful 2007, we present this third edition of ForLive Highlights. Among other matters, in this edition we report on the current situation of forest management in Bolivia ten years after the approval of the new Forest Law and the importance of the forest in terms of economic benefits for small farmers in Ecuador. The harvesting of palm fibre from Aphandra natalia by small farmers provides and example of a promising initiative of sustainable forest management in the Amazon.
News Fresh Ideas at ZOW 2007 in Bad Salzuflen: The Curtain goes up on the
Far from being a bad omen, the news from organizer Survey Marketing + Consulting (Bielefeld, Germany) on the 13th "ZOW - East Westphalia Supplier Show" in Bad Salzuflen is simply "house sold out". From February 26 to March 1, 2007, the trade platform for the furniture and interior design industries will present its most diverse program of special events to date.
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Increased demand for bio-fuels (Nordic Forestry)
Unofficial calculations indicate that the part of renewable energy in Finland will increase to 40 % until the year 2020. The corresponding target for the whole EU is 20 %. Demand for wood based raw materials will increase for both heating, traffic and electricity production.
News Tick-borne encephalitis cases rise sharply in Czech Republic (radio.cz)
By Jan Velinger Photo by ForestPress Specialists have revealed that there was a sharp rise in the incidence in tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, in the Czech Republic last year. Some 1000 people contracted the potentially deadly disease which is transmitted by deer ticks: 60 percent more than in 2005.
News Forest Service Chief Defends Bush Budget (Associated Press)
By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats dismissed as "unworkable'' the first budget request of new Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell. Kimbell, the first woman to head the Forest Service, came under fire Tuesday as she defended President Bush's request for the next budget year, which deals her agency a spending cut and eliminates more than 2,100 jobs.
Research Support to the design and development of innovative forest management schemes
FAO TCP/HUN/3003 Project: DRAFT Summary Report Support to the design and development of innovative forest management schemes Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary Food and Agriculture Organisation Budapest Forest Enterprise
News United Nations General Assembly declares 2011 as International Year of Forests (ForestPress)
NEW YORK, (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) – To bolster efforts that will promote sustainable management, conservation and development of forests worldwide, the General Assembly adopted a resolution today declaring the year 2011 as the International Year of Forests.
News Forestry Commission Award from the Kennel Club (BBC)
‘Recognition of The Positive Impact Made to Improve The Lives of Dogs & Owners’ Representatives from the Forestry Commission attended the Kennel Club headquarters today (Friday 2 February), to receive the KC Dog Recognition Award for ‘a national authority which has made a positive impact to help improve the lives of dogs and their owners.’
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The Overstory No.183
Forestry interventions to reduce poverty by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Contents: INTRODUCTION HOW NATURAL FORESTS CAN BETTER CONTRIBUTE TO LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY REDUCTION AGROFORESTRY
News Tree City USA (cityofvancouver.us)
Vancouver has been recognized as a TREE CITY USA since 1989. The TREE CITY USA program is designed to recognize communities that effectively manage their urban forest and meet the four TREE CITY USA standards.
News VCAT ruling reinforces environmental benefits of tree plantations (NAFI)
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)has indicated that a new tree plantation in the Gellibrand River catchment is likely to improve the quality of water resources A decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has given the go-ahead for a tree plantation to be established in the Gellibrand area in country Victoria, citing the environmental benefits tree plantations offer rural Australia.
