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News Rising temperatures will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two centuries, UK climate scientists have warned. Even if harmful emissions were cut now, many parts of the world would face a greater risk of natural disasters, a team from Bristol University said.
Press review 15 August 2006 Scholze's team predicts more wildfires (red) if the planet warms by 3 degrees or more Catherine Brahic A three-degrees Celsius rise in temperature over the next century will increase the risk of drought, wildfires and forest loss in many parts of the developing world, say researchers. Marko Scholze of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom led an assessment of the impacts climate change could have on key ecosystems.
News Mathias Froidevaux Swiss forests cover 1.2 million square hectares, or 30% of the country (Keystone) Demand for Swiss timber is increasing, pulling the industry out of the red and a decade of crises. The recent upturn has underlined the importance of Switzerland's multipurpose forests. But even though they are expanding, they are under-exploited.
NASA shows interest in robot airplanes, developed in Borsod county , Hungary To detect forest fires, heat camera robot airoplanes have been deployed at Szendrő, Borsod county, Hungary Ágoston Restás, chief of Szendrő Fire Protection, said to ForestPress that three electricity driven engines of only a few kilograms weight, and 3 meters wing span, can assist in detecting large forest fires.
News Did you know that the forest trees in Mount Makiling, Laguna, are far more diverse than those in the entire United States? Or that the Philippines has more endemic or native birds than the whole of Europe? It is amazing indeed that a country so small, with a total land area of 30 million hectares and a total coastline of 18,000 kilometers, can be a world showcase in biological diversity. According to Dr. Corazon Sinha and Dr. Lawrence Heaney, authors of the book Philippine Biodiversity: Principles and Practice, recently published by Haribon, "There are many reasons why the Philippines is both high in species richness and endemism."
News This morning (Wednesday, 9th August), Spain requested European civil protection assistance to help combat the forest fires raging in more that 100 places in the region of Galicia. The request triggered a rapid response from the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) of the European Commission.
You will be happy to know that the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, will be celebrating its100 years in 2007. We believe that the next 100 years will be quite different than the last 100 years. The 21st century will be probably known as the era of environmentalism, natural capitalism, scientific integration, globalization, and participatory governance. Naturally, in this new era, the conceptual framework of forest resource management will be different than its existing framework.
By Anatoly Medetsky Forestry officials have gone high-tech in an effort to stop illegal logging, deploying satellites to catch loggers red-handed, the Federal Forestry Agency said Wednesday.
News This quarterly newsletter, ForLive Highlights, has been prepared to inform you about the ongoing activities and outcomes of the ForLive project “Forest management by small farmers in the Amazon: An opportunity to enhance forest ecosystem stability and rural livelihoods”.
News ZURICH - Zookeepers in the Swiss financial centre of Zurich are feeding animals a diet of frozen berries, meat and bones to help them stay cool in the sweltering summer heat.
News Alto del Carmen By Larry Rohter ALTO DEL CARMEN, Chile There is gold in these hills - at least $11.5 billion worth at last count, in a wind-swept area studded with glaciers, more than 15,000 feet up in the Andes. The world's biggest gold company wants to mine it, but is finding that a harsh terrain is not the only obstacle in its path. Though the Chilean government has tentatively approved the $1.5 billion mining project, called Pascua-Lama, opposition here in Huasco Province is intense and growing.
News BEIJING - The global illegal trade in wild animals and plants has exceeded US$10 billion a year, becoming the world's third-largest source of illicit income after drugs and guns, a wildlife conference heard on Friday.
News Lake Okeechobee By Brian Skoloff IN THE EVERGLADES, Florida — Engineers next month will begin building one of the world's largest manmade reservoirs - the size of a small city - as efforts continue to restore natural water flow to the Everglades. The reservoir, roughly 25 square miles in area, is set for completion in 2010. It will hold 62 billion gallons of water, equivalent to about 5.1 million residential swimming pools, and will be seven miles across at its widest point.
News A fire raged yesterday through a rain forest along Brazil’s eastern coastline, burning up to 25,000 acres of trees, firefighters said. The fire in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest remained out of control late yesterday, said firefighters from the municipality of Mage, 50 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
News U.S. court Gordon Hamilton, CanWest News Service VANCOUVER - The United States Court of International Trade ruled lumber duties are unlawful Friday, handing Canadian lumber producers a victory in their battle with the United States over softwood lumber. But with an agreement already initialled by the two countries and ready to be introduced in Parliament this September, the deal already in hand is the one Canada intends to go ahead with, said a spokesman for International Trade Minister David Emerson.
Press room FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Professional Vacancy Announcement No: 1541-FOP Deadline For Application: 7 September 2006 Position Title Forestry Officer (Economic Analysis)
Press room FAO photo contest The Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is launching a photo contest to recognize the beauty of forests and the people who use them.
News By CAMERON SMITH Ontario's herds face many threats They are elusive and, well, gracious, which the dictionary defines as affable and, in a loose sense, elegant. The forest-dwelling woodland caribou, in turn, define the wilderness in Ontario's boreal forest. They are an indicator species — and they may be doomed. Already they are designated as threatened.
News One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment provides a comprehensive, visual presentation of scientifically verifiable information about changes in the global environment, shown through state-of-the-art remote sensing technology.
By Richard Black The world needs a new global organisation dedicated to stemming the loss of plant and animal species. That is the argument put forward by a group of eminent academics in this week's edition of the journal Nature. They call for the establishment of an Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity (IPB) to parallel the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
News HAIFA, Israel - Staff at Israel's Haifa zoo have locked the lions and tigers in bomb proof cages to stop them escaping if there is a hit from a Hizbollah missile. "If a rocket hits the open-air pen and one of the carnivores escapes into the city, it would not be a nice prospect," said head keeper Yoav Ratner. "Thankfully the night rooms are secure -- they are like bomb shelters."
News An Aberdeenshire gamekeeper who poisoned wild birds and kept illegal pesticides has been fined 850. Hector McNeil, who worked on Glenbuchat estate for 30 years, had admitted killing a raven, of which there are only two breeding pairs in Grampian.
News Passport in Time (PIT) is a volunteer archaeology and historic preservation program of the USDA Forest Service (FS). PIT volunteers work with professional FS archaeologists and historians on national forests throughout the U.S. on such diverse activities as archaeological survey and excavation, rock art restoration, survey, archival research, historic structure restoration, oral history gathering, and analysis and curation of artifacts. The FS professional staff of archaeologists and historians will be your hosts, guides, and co-workers.
News In their new programme for sustainable forestry Finnish private forest owners emphasize the importance of forestry for the viability of rural areas. They also underscore the importance of profitable forestry for maintaining biodiversity in nature. The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners, MTK, that is also the interest group of Finnish private forest owners, has published a programme for sustainable family forestry. This program is an update of the previous programme for forest biodiversity from the year 2000. The new program supplements the previous one by emphasizing that forestry must also be socially and financially sustainable.
