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News Competition in the Nordic countries for becoming the leading city for wooden house construction Wooden houses have become politically “in”. The Norwegian cities Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger are competing for the title of leading wooden house constructor in the Nordic countries.
News By Alison Ross An Amazonian ant that uses its own "herbicide" to shape its surroundings has been described by scientists. The team made the discovery whilst studying "devil's gardens", mysterious parts of the rainforest that are dominated by a single species of tree.
News How plants control their flowering? Researchers at the Ume? Plant Science Centre in SLU, the Swedish University of Living Natural Resources, report a great breakthrough in understanding how plants regulate their blooming.
News The parliamentary elections in Norway were a great success for the left wing. The three parties concerned are now pursuing negotiations for forming the new government. The Norwegian Forest Owners’ Federation is glad to see that there is a basis for forming a majority coalition.
News SHIMLA: The World Bank could soon bail out Himachal Pradesh's shrinking forests by funding an ambitious Rs.3.7 billion ($84.2 million) conservation project. Shrinking forests are causing concern among several quarters in the hill state and have started affecting the ecologically fragile mid hills (1,800 to 5,000 ft above sea level), resulting in water scarcity and soil erosion.
News Dear Ladies and Gentleman, dear colleagues, With great joy, let also me welcome you to the seminar on behalf of the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF). CEPF is one of the co-founder of the PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes), which means: is with on board of certification of managed forests and forest products from the very beginning.
News MOSCOW - The Russian Federal Agency for Forestry and the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture signed an agreement on forest protection and reforestation, the Russian Natural Resources Ministry said Friday.
A group of farmers in the dry Kajiado District are harvesting sunlight which is abundant in the area to service their 10-acre commercial eucalyptus plantation. "We are playing with natural energy which otherwise goes to waste to make commercial gains," says Maxwell Kinyanjui the project consultant. The district, which neighbours Nairobi, receives very little rain or sometimes non for the whole year, making it a drought prone area.
News Almost all timber offered for sale from private forests in Finland is certified. Timber sold from family owned forests is PEFC-certified. In this autumn’s timber trade certain purchasers will introduce quality related pricing as a new element.
News Early Estimates Indicate Millions of Acres Sustained Damage Worth Potentially Billions of Dollars WASHINGTON, - Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service today reported that Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed approximately 19 billion board feet of timber estimated at a value of $5 billion in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
The Oak forests are the most rich ecosystems in the temperate zone Once Oak forest were one of the major forests in Europe THE OAK FORESTS ARE DECLINING AT THE SAME SPEED AS TROPICAL FORESTS!
News The mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia has been present for over 10 years but exploded to cover 7,000,000 hectares by 2004 and is now the largest insect epidemic in North America’s history. Mountain pine beetle continue to spread. The beetles pose a serious threat to western Canada’s economy and to forest communities from Houston in northern B.C. to Manning Park on the American border, and from Whistler in the west down to Cranbrook in the east.
News The Katoomba Group is an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of the ecosystem services provided by forests – such as watershed protection, biodiversity habitat, and carbon storage.
News By Helen Briggs Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests. Levels of methane rose steadily in the atmosphere in the first millennium, according to an analysis of gases trapped in ice beneath Antarctica.
News UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson , British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.
News Albert Thurman's tidy home is full of bugs. More than 125,000, to be exact. Through a hobby that has spanned three decades and nearly a dozen countries, Thurman, 58, has amassed a collection of butterflies and insects so vast, diverse and well-preserved that two prominent university museums have agreed to accept the collection into their permanent archives.
News Ha Noi - The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will provide 4.5 million Euros to a project on Vietnamese forest management and marketing of forestry products. An agreement to this affect was signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam and the GTZ in Ha Noi on August 30.
News The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has rescued hundreds of citizens in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast 10 days ago. At the same time, the agency continues to clear miles of roadways, support local police and fire department officials, establish emergency corridors to speed the delivery of relief aid, open access to the Louisiana Heart Hospital, and provide critical help to Red Cross relief workers.
