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Green Party lobbies against NSW biomass plant (ttjonline.com)
A New South Wales woodchip processor has accused the Green Party of misleading the public about its plans for a biomass power plant in the Australian state.
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Putin sacks forestry agency chief for laxity in checking fires (zeenews.com)
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Friday sacked the chief of Russia's forestry agency, who came under severe criticism for failures to check wildfires in the country which left 50 people dead and left hundreds of thousands of hectares of land ablaze.
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26,000 visitors at the Danish Forest Day (Nordic Forestry)
The Danish Forest Day on Sunday 9 May 2010 attracted about 26,000 visitors to visit the over 60 different events in private and public forests all over the country.
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France: New Legislation Promotes Log Mobilization (fordaq.com)
A new law for the modernization of agriculture, adopted in France on July 13th, affects also the forestry sector as it targets to intensify the timber mobilization in small private-owned forests.
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Paper industry tests genetically altered trees (philly.com)
MITCH STACY TAMPA, Fla. - The commercial paper industry's plans to plant forests of genetically altered eucalyptus trees in seven Southern states has generated more cries from critics worried that such a large introduction of a bioengineered nonnative plant could throw natural ecosystems out of whack.
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Deforestation Threatens Europeean Forest (redorbit.com)
Deforestation in Eastern Europe’s Puszcza Bialowieska is threatening the area’s flora and fauna, warned Polish environmentalists on Wednesday.
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Multi-Purpose Poplar Plantations – Targeting at Low Carbon and Wide Economy (IUFRO/ForestPress)
By Shirong LIU, IUFRO Board Member and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Forestry
News Death toll from Russian wildfires reaches 48 (RIA Novosti)
MOSCOW, 2010. August 4 - The death toll from wildfires raging across central Russia has now risen to 48, the country's emergencies ministry said on Wednesday.
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NASA plots first-of-a-kind map of the Earth’s forests (independent.co.)
A first-of-a-kind map plotted by scientists using data from NASA satellites shows the Earth's tallest and shortest forests; it is hoped that the map can be used to predict the spread of forest fires and monitor the effects of deforestation and climate change.
News Felling of infected larches gathers pace (forestry.gov.uk)
Felling of Japanese and hybrid larches in south-west England is running into the “high hundreds” of hectares as the Forestry Commission fights back against tree disease Phytophthora ramorum.
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Nature vs. Nurture in Forest Recovery (Tierramérica)
By Julio Godoy Amidst criticism and applause from environmentalists and experts, a programme is emerging in Germany to expand the total area covered by forests -- to as much as five percent of national territory. The debate centres on just how much human intervention there should be.
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U.S. law requires less formaldehyde in wood products (usatoday.com)
President Obama signed a new law this month that limits the amount of formaldehyde, a chemical linked to cancer and respiratory problems, that's allowed in wood products.
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USDA Forest Service Report Shows Economic, Health Benefits of America's National Forests and Grassla
USDA Forest Service Report Shows Economic, Health Benefits of America's National Forests and Grasslands (Forest Service Press)
News Australia urged to follow EU lead on illegal timber (abc.net.au)
Julia Gillard The Federal Government is under pressure to deliver on its election promise to ban the importation of illegal timber.
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Planted forests in sustainable forest management (fao.org)
A statement of principles - Planted forests cover ca. 264 million hectares, an area nearly the size of Argentina or Kazakhstan.
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Forestry in the EU CAP post 2013 debate (cepf)
Atilla Lengyel DG Agriculture called stakeholders for contribution to the Common Agriculture Policy post 2013 reform.
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Rainforest scientists urge UN to correct "serious loophole" by changing its definition of 'forest'
Rainforest scientists urge UN to correct "serious loophole" by changing its definition of 'forest' (mongabay.com) Jeremy Hance
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Foundation of the European Pellet Council (ForestPress)
June 30, 2010 - Since global markets for the pellet production might grow from 12 million tons of annual production in 2010 to over 100 millions tons in 2010, national pellets associations from Austria, Finland, France, Germany Hungary, Italy Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have pooled together to create a common European platform- the European Pellet Council.
