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As the Linking Directive for lCERs tCERs is not yet in place, the Bagepalli CDM Reforestation Programme is not able to go to the market in a conventional manner for selling our VERs/ lCERs. Thus we are launching a public call to interested parties to purchase the VERs/ lCERs from our project. The PDD is done and currently undergoing validation with SGS.
News By Ed Stoddard ANTANANARIVO - The pace of deforestation in Africa has probably been underestimated by satellite imagery, lending new urgency to efforts to save the continent's wild treasures, a scientist said on Thursday. "The consensus is that Africa is losing about 0.4 to 0.7 percent of its forests each year but this is likely an underestimate," said Holly Gibbs, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin who has been studying the phenomenon.
News Visocica Hill, is the first European pyramid to be discovered and is located in the heart of Bosnia, in the town of Visoko. The pyramid has all the elements: four perfectly shaped slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex. There are also the ruins of a Medieval walled town, once the base of a Bosnian king Tvrtko of Kotromanic (1338-1391). Because of its similarities to the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, it has been named the “Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun” ('Bosanska Piramida Sunca').
News New Hampshire Fish and Game Department It's prime time to get in a hunter education class. If you're looking to purchase your first hunting license in New Hampshire, you are required to complete a hunter education course before you can hunt. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department offers hunter and bowhunter education classes around the state, as well as trapper education. To find a class call (603) 271-3214.
Written By: Yeoh Jun-Lin The Rainforest World Music Festival has established itself having two components to make up its whole. There are the evening shows under the canopy of trees and night sky. And there are the daytime mini-shows that have been called “workshops” over the last 9 years of the festival’s existence, but are really more of a loose collection of every possible attempt to milk more information, more music and more personal interaction from the musicians with the audience.
News Speaking at the Small-Scale Forestry and Rural Development Conference which was opened in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology today, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Mary Wallace T.D., said “wherever we have forests, we will have options: options for jobs, for exports, for energy, for biodiversity, for the environment, for rural communities. Previous generations of planters have given us those options”.
News Chemical-free tick killer, a biopesticide has been developed by two Hungarian researchers. Containing no chemicals at all, it is completely environmental friendly. To release the new tick-killer into the forests and recreation areas the earliest possible, the two inventors, Dr Zoltán Bratek and Dr Béla Pál Bózsik are looking for producers.
News About 2 000 forest owners in Southern Sweden risk being fined, unless by 15 July they have taken care of the timber felled by the severe storm in January 2005. According to the Swedish Forest Agency the quantity of timber still remaining in the forest is over one million m3.
News Thirteen Countries to celebrate 3rd Danube Day Series of Events Planned Across Danube River Basin on 29 June VIENNA, June 2006 - A series of events have been planned for the celebration of the third Danube Day, 29 June, to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Danube River Protection Convention in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1994. Thirteen Countries to celebrate 3rd Danube Day Series of Events Planned Across Danube River Basin on 29 June VIENNA, June 2006 - A series of events have been planned for the celebration of the third Danube Day, 29 June, to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Danube River Protection Convention in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1994.
News By ROBERT McCLURE For the next half-century, Washington's timber industry will be shielded from Endangered Species Act prosecutions for harming salmon and four dozen other types of water creatures, the federal government declared Monday. In exchange, the industry pledged to take steps to help salmon, such as leaving forests alongside streams on 9.3 million acres. That's one-fifth of the state, making it the largest such deal in the West.
Story by By Alister Doyle OSLO - The world must lay to rest a "myth" that protecting the environment harms economic growth, the new head of the UN Environment Programme said on Thursday. Achim Steiner, a 45-year-old German, said he would seek to involve consumers, governments, businesses and activists in developing new economic mechanisms to protect the planet from threats ranging from climate change to pollution.
News Best reason of the week for losing a World Cup match Ukrainian defender Vladislav Vashchuk claims they lost 4-0 to Spain because of noisy frogs outside the team's hotel. 'Because of the frogs' croaking we hardly got a wink of sleep,' explained Vashchuk.
The Global Importance of the Boreal Forest: Migratory Birds and the Paper Industry 10 - 13 September 2006 Clare College, Cambridge, UK The conference will feature: Industry – NGO – government – science discussions to promote cross-sectoral collaboration and/or communication, build relationships and increase mutual understanding In-depth discussions of the world’s impacts on boreal ecosystems, especially in relation to migratory birds.
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia loses over $100mn every year through the illicit trading of live animals, according to the ministry of agriculture and rural development. An expert with the ministry said that illicit trade with neighbouring countries had lost the country over $100mn.
Facts About Hungary Hungary lies in the centre of Europe, midway between East and West, North and South, ringed by the Alps and the Carpathians. Its undulating lowlands, low hills, fine rivers and grass plains extend over an area of 93,000 km2. Our ancestors, migrating from the east, were drawn to settle in this land rich in natural resources 1100 years ago. On arrival in the Carpathian Basin they came across fertile plains, rivers abounding in fish, and hills full of game.
News The second reading of the new Forest Code Project is again postponed at least until July 2006. However, the schedule of State Duma debates for July 2006 does not include the reading of the new Forest Code, but this schedule is usually not strictly followed.
News The EU Forest Action Plan was adopted on 15 June 2006. It builds on the report on implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy and consequent conclusions by the Council.
News The Forest Tourism Initiative is a collaboration between Scottish Enterprise, Forestry Commission Scotland, VisitScotland and Highlands & Islands Enterprise. Its goal is to enhance the visitor experience of Scotland's forests by working with Forestry Commision Scotland’s (FCS) districts and with Scotland's tourism businesses to improve and develop the forest tourism product.
After two years of planning, Australia's oldest woodchip exporter has abandoned its bid to enter the global softwood market. A glut of softwoods is looming after an infestation of the North American timber beetle in Canada.
News Fuel consumption in felling and in transportation has been reduced by 30 % since 1985. The reason for this favourable development is more efficient machines and systems. This is the conclusion of studies made by Skogforsk, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.
News The blackfooted ferret South Carolina’s Milliken Forestry Resources to receive single largest grant in program’s history ST. GEORGE, S.C. - Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Matt Hogan announced today grants totaling more than $6.9 million are being awarded to private landowners and groups in 35 states through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Private Stewardship Grants program to undertake conservation projects on their land for endangered, threatened and other at-risk species.
News Forest plantations making up for the loss Rome /Larnaka, Cyprus - While many countries in the region have increased their forest area during the period 2000-2005, heavy grazing, wood, clearing of forests for agriculture, and urban development are depleting forest resources in the already forest-scarce Near East, according to FAO.
News WASHINGTON – A diverse group of activists, politicians and businesses is proposing the United States get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The Christian Science Monitor reported that the coalition, which includes governors, industry leaders, farm groups, county officials and environmentalists, has dubbed the proposal "25x'25."
News Story by Julia Hayley MADRID - A plan to start the biggest open pit copper mine in Europe in southern Spain has run into opposition from environmentalists who fear it will pollute a river with poisonous heavy metals. Canadian company Inmet Mining Corporation is preparing a site in the province of Seville to extract 72,000 tonnes of copper cathodes a year from the high-grade Las Cruces mine starting in January 2008.
