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News By Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE – A tiger tore another tiger apart at the Lahore Wildlife Park, it was learnt on Thursday. This was the second such incident at the safari park in less than three months. Earlier, a tigress had killed another tigress in Ramazan. The park built in the city outskirt along Raiwind Road is yet to be opened to public.
[LILONGWE] The once-banned insecticide DDT is being reconsidered by many countries in Africa as a means to combat malaria. But concerns remain that use of the chemical will damage agricultural trade with Europe. Scientists, researchers and environmentalists meet in Malawi today (12 January) to discuss the risks and benefits of DDT, according to Storn Kabuluzi, manager of the National Malaria Control Programme in Malawi. DDT is one of the most affordable ways to fight malaria.
To build on a commitment taken at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in May 2003 the Commission published an EU Action Plan for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). Council Conclusions were adopted in October 2003, and the European Parliament motion on the FLEGT action plan was adopted in February 2004.
News VICTORIA – British Columbia is sending 52 forest fire specialists to Australia to help respond to bushfires that have burned over 30 homes and a ski lodge in the State of Victoria, announced Forests and Range Minister Rich Coleman today.
Press review January 11, 2007 The Feniglia dune on the Tuscan coast In the early twentieth century, reforestation was among the weapons used in the battle to eliminate malaria from Italy. Malaria was already diffuse in the Mediterranean region by the fifth century BC. In ancient Rome, the severity of the problem worsened towards the end of the Republican era with the arrival of Plasmodium falciparum (which causes the most severe form of the disease), probably from Africa.
Press review Unasylva No. 224 (Vol. 57/2). Cover photo: Women gathering medicinal plants (Combretum micranthum) from the forest, Guinea FAO/CFU000304/R. Faidutti Unasylva is published in English, French and Spanish. Starting in 2006, payment is no longer required. Free subscriptions can be obtained by sending an e-mail to unasylva@fao.org. Subscription requests from institutions (e.g. libraries, companies, organizations, universities) rather than individuals are preferred to make the journal accessible to more readers.
News TOKYO – Germany plans to propose strengthening cooperation with Japan in technological and research fields to help fast growing economies such as China and India reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a Japanese daily reported Wednesday.
News A reckless minority of Danes throw more and more refuse away in the woods. It comprises all kinds of objects from beer cans and ice cream paper to construction waste, refrigerators and caravans. The quantity of refuse has increased to insupportable proportions for forest visitors and the situation is still worse for forest owners who also have to cope with the problem and bear the costs for removing the refuse.
News The Government Barometer presented on this website is a WWF rating of the EU governments’ commitments and actions against illegal logging.
News REHOVOT, Israel, (ENS) - Much of the dust needed for fertilizing the entire Brazilian rainforest originates in a single valley in the African country of Chad and travels thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean to South America, newly published research shows. Based on satellite data, the study was conducted by an international research team headed by Dr. Ilan Koren of the Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
Chicagoans will be able to drop off their Christmas trees at 23 locations between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. The trees will be mulched, and residents can bring the mulch home if they wish.
News BERLIN - Germans have found a novel way of recycling thousands of used and unsold Christmas trees: give them to the local zoo to feed to the animals. "Elephants around the country will enjoy a delicious lunch today consisting of about five Christmas trees each," Berlin Zoo spokesman Ragnar Kuehne told Reuters on Thursday.
News Forestry Commission Wales has scooped a major environmental award for the way it manages waste at its popular new visitor centre in Nant yr Arian, near Aberystwyth. The prestigious Wales Business and Sustainability Awards recognised the efforts of 16 companies and organisations from all over Wales who have all demonstrated a commitment to take care of their environment and have realised benefits as a result.
News SHIMLA: Forest guards in Himachal Pradesh can stop trekking the vast stretches of forests. The government is providing them with motorcycles to better protect the flora and fauna. Around a quarter of the state's area is covered by forests, which are home to one of the most varied vegetation and wildlife in northern India.
News New data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory indicate that if Sweden applied the international definition of the concept "forest", the country's protected forest area would double. According to the Swedish National Forest Inventory the aggregate forest area in Sweden is 23.8 million hectares of which 3.2 % are protected as national parks, nature reserves and nature conservation areas. That percentage figure represents about 760 000 hectares of forest.
News The forests of Bulgaria have priceless importance for the country and are part of the European and World wealth. Besides their key function for biodiversity conservation and provision of quality nature resources, the forests have global, national, regional, economic, ecological and social importance.
News FAO takes a new integrated approach to information gathering on natural resources Rome - From simple gathering of information on forests separately from all other natural resources, FAO is taking a new step forward and monitoring the management, uses and users of natural resources and their trends using an integrated approach.
News New research from the CSIRO suggests the current drought is due to natural variation in climate, not the greenhouse effect. Barrie Hunt, an honorary research fellow at the CSIRO's atmospheric research centre in Melbourne, has studied 10,000 years of climate variability in Australia.
News At present wood is the most important renewable energy source in Denmark. Firewood, shredded wood, wood waste and pellets constitute 31 % of total current energy consumption of Danish households. That is 50 % more than wind power.
News The European Commission's DG Development and DG Environment have launched a public consultation to seek views on how to combat illegal logging - in particular how to avoid the EU serving as a market for illegally harvested timber from countries where such practices are believed to be widespread.
News Harare – An indigenous tree – buffalo thorn – has been chosen as the tree of the year for the 2006 National Tree Planting Day because of its outstanding medicinal properties. The start of the tree planting season is always the first Saturday of December, this year December 2, with more than 89 000 seedlings of several species earmarked for planting on about 105 hectares countrywide.
News Karmadon Gorge in North Ossetia MOSCOW - The number of natural calamities in Russia more than doubled over the last 10 years as a result of global warming, the Russian minister of emergency situations said Thursday. "All that is happening is the consequence of the continuously warming climate," Sergei Shoigu said. "Over the last 10 years as a result of such warming the number of natural calamities in our country more than doubled, rising from 150 to 350."
News Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio A group representing aboriginal communities in northern Ontario is trying to enlist U.S. film star Leonardo DiCaprio in its fight against diamond mining in the boreal forest. The Nishnawbe Aski Nation — a political organization that represents about 45,000 Cree and Ojibwa people in 49 communities — has written to DiCaprio, who stars in Blood Diamond, a recently released film about the diamond trade in war-torn Sierra Leone.
News Debra Stephenson The Woodland Trust is urging everyone to make a New Year’s resolution today, and commit to recycling their Christmas cards. This year’s target is to recycle 90 million Christmas cards – that’s enough to fill 100,000 of Santa’s sacks! And to make things even easier, Recycle Now and the Woodland Trust have got some big high street names on board.
