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News Second Breeding Season Found Among Migratory Songbirds (sciencedaily.com)
Coccyzus americanus 26 October 2009, - Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.
News WFC: With an initial expected number of 4 000 participants rising up to over 7 000 (ForestPress)
Buenos Aires, Argentina - “We should not exclude any potential means of mitigating climate change - said Jan Heino, Assistant Director General of the Forestry Department at FAO, just as the World Forestry Congress drew to a close on Friday 23 October.
News Cristina Fernádez de Kirchner to open the XIII WFC 2009 (FoestPress)
Hungary no one shall represent the World Congress
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New energy era blows into Scotland’s forests (forestry.gov.uk)
Forestry Commission Scotland is ramping up its contribution to generating clean and renewable energy by developing more wind energy projects on its land.
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WFC side event: forests and poverty alleviation
The University of Copenhagen and CIFOR invites you to the WFC side event: Poverty Environment Network (PEN): assessing the role of tropical forests in poverty alleviation When: Monday 19 October at 18:30-20:30 Where: Blue Pavillion, room Pehuén
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Save the forests, help save the planet – UN agricultural official (un.org/ForestPress)
“Damage to forest ecosystems is affecting everyone in the world through climate change, water scarcity and the loss of biological diversity,” UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Assistant Director General of Forestry Jan Heino said ahead of a meeting later this month of World Forestry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
News Private forestry to fight crisis via energy and changed regulation – Hungary (CEPF/ForestPress)
Woody biomass plays so far the largest part of renewable energy production in Hungary. The conference tackled its further potentials in Hungary and its positive impacts on private forestry. New EU regulation on rural development yet to be implemented causing serious financial problems for the forest owners.
News Cristina Fernádez de Kirchner to open the XIII WFC 2009 (cfm2009.org)
the President, Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner On the 20th of October at 05:00 p.m., the President of the Nation will participate in the Symbolic Planting Ceremony and will unveil an allegorical plaque in the Gardens of Casa Rosada. She will also offer a press conference graced with the presence of special guests, national and international authorities.
News Argentina’s Forests Suffer Nearly 70 Percent Loss (forestrynews.com)
The forests of Argentina have suffered a loss of between 60 percent and 70 percent overall, the Environmental Secretariat reported. "In 100 years, we have lost between 60 and 70 percent of our forest heritage," said Environmental Undersecretary Sergio La Rocca.
News Infertile farm land new habitat for Iberian lynx (AFP )
Olive groves with low production close to Sierra de Cardena y Montoro, in Córdoba – which is the only place, along with Donana, where the Iberian lynx, at risk of extinction, lives – have been identified to restore its habitat.
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Spanish charity to buy part of Amazon rainforest (thinkSPAIN)
INDIGENOUS Amazonians have reached an agreement with Spanish scientists allowing the latter to buy 100,000 hectares of rainforest for conservation reasons.
News Hungary president calls for new global environmental approach (MTI)
Auckland - Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom called for a comprehensive change in the approach to global environmental problems in a lecture given at the University of Auckland on Friday.
News The WFC 2009 will be the first “Carbon Neutral” Congress (ForestPress)
The XIII? World Forestry Congress, to be held as of next 18th to 23rd of October, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be the first World Forestry Congress which shall achieve “Carbon Neutral” ranking.
News Guyana is a model of forest protection that could solve the climate crisis (Guardian)
Bharrat Jagdeo is president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana 21 September 2009 - A Copenhagen deal must enable countries like ours to generate an income by conserving forests rather than cutting them down
News Bundchen takes on Brazil president over Amazon deforestation (AP/forestrynews.com)
A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environment Program SAO PAULO - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a new United Nations advocate for environmental awareness — and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.
