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Geneva - Over the last ten years, China has moved from being a modest player in the world’s forest products markets, to becoming one of the leading exporters of manufactured forest products and a major trading partner of both Europe and North America. This is one of the main findings of the UNECE/FAO publication,
News 2010 Hazardous Fuels Woody Biomass Utilization Restoration Activities on All Priority Forestlands (fpl.fs.fed.us)
Common Crane Grus grus has been chosen as the Bird of the Year, following the result of a poll conducted by (BirdLife in Armenia) and LOLO, a famous children journal.
In 2009 the German wood pellet production increased slightly up to the mark of 1.6 Mio. t. Compared to 2008 this was an increase of about 100,000 t.
London: A scientific study for the Forestry Commission, UK, has suggested that the creation of new forests and woodlands across Britain will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10% and protect communities at risk of flooding.
A subspecies of red fox living in California's Sacramento Valley -- long believed to be a non-native pest -- is in fact native to the area, scientists say.
TOKYO — The government plans to boost Japan’s timber self-sufficiency rate to 50% from the current 24% over the next 10 years by promoting forest road development to cut timber production costs, government sources said Friday.
The Irish Forestry and Forest Products Association (IFFPA), has welcomed the Government commitment to invest an extra €3 million in the forestry and bio-energy sector next year, as announced in the budget.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in cooperation with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), today released The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems today at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark.
MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday urged the international community to take joint measures against global climate change.
Australia is pushing to exempt carbon emissions caused by drought and bushfires from any carbon pollution reduction scheme
Forest owners and the EU Commissioner Mrs. Mariann Fischer-Boel gathered together around a Christmas tree on 4th of December. CEPF President Mr Christer Segerstéen presented the tree as a living symbol of European forests, but also a symbol for the future of the European Union.
CABINET HAS approved heads of a Bill which will make deer-hunting with hounds an offence, Minister for the Environment John Gormley has confirmed.
Forests are one of Europe's most important renewable resources. By providing a wide range of products and services, growth and jobs in rural areas forests and forest industry can compete with almost all other sources by which humans obtain essential commodities.
Budapest, - A three-billion-forint air conditioner plant opened at the northeastern town of Perkupa on Thursday. The plant pledges to use environmentally-friendly technology that is unique in Hungary and in Central and Eastern Europe, the Hungarian owner, Genex said in a statement.
Chuwang Dungs Jalingo — Two infant eagles, suspected to be male and a female and believed to have migrated from a zoo in Finland, were last week trapped separately by two young fishermen in a river called Thaton in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area in Taraba State.
News MOSCOW - Russia will support a new global climate deal only if major powers also sign up and take into account the role Russia's giant forests play as the lungs of the world, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Nord Institute for Society and Environment, a Japanese consulting firm specializing in socio-environmental policy, released on August 20, 2009,
