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BILLINGS, Mont.—A Colorado man used a chain saw to fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.
News Photo by ForestPress The Finnish and Hungarian Ministers of Agriculture, Sirkka-Liisa Anttila and József Gráf, met in Budapest on 15 July to discuss closer cooperation between the two countries with regard to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and to agree on separate bilateral development projects.
Basel-based agrichemical concern Syngenta has launched a five-year programme designed to help farmers by bringing bees and other pollinating insects close to fields.
Fifty-six Japanese regional banks, including the Bank of Kyoto, announced on April 14, 2009, that they have developed the FY2009 plan "Regional Bank Federation for Protecting Japanese Forests" to launch full-scale forest conservation activities.
A Genome Center founded under a joint project of the Ministry of Agriculture and St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia opened doors on the premises of the University’s Department of Biology. The Ministry has provided financing for the project.
More women will be supported as leaders in agricultural industries with another $2 million in grants announced today by the Rudd Government under the Recognising Women Farmers initiative.
News A declaration issued by political leaders meeting at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, included a strong statement on the need to include forest conservation in a future climate agreement. Deforestation accounts for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a larger source of emissions than all the world's cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes combined.
The latest national forest inventory in Finland indicates that the forest capital is still on the increase. According to the tenth national survey the aggregate growing stock volume is now 2.2 billion m3. Annual growth is 99.5 million m3.
Professional shooters brought in to destroy an aggressive crocodile in Western Australia's north have failed to kill the animal.
By RYAN J. FOLEY MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin lawmakers moved Thursday to lower the hunting age by two years to 10 and offer youngsters reduced license fees in an effort to preserve the state's hunting culture.
Swedes love to spend time outdoors in the forest. A poll made by the Federation of Swedish Farmers – LRF indicates that as much as 94 % of all Swedes find it important to spend time in the forest. Six persons out of ten also know that forest provides renewable energy and that it is beneficial for the climate.
News Tom Tidwell brings 32 Years of Experience Working to Protect Our Nation's Forests WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Tom Tidwell will serve as the new Chief for the U.S. Forest Service.
In traditional beliefs the bee is God-blessed. Associated with hard work and fertility, bees mark the transition to nature’s awakening, and their product – honey is a divine gift providing the best of nutrition and health benefits.
News According to the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the use of timber in the French building sector is to be raised tenfold by 2020.
The timber market in the first quarter of 2009 was in retreat across the Continent, according to delegates at the latest assembly of the European Timber Trade Association (FEBO). But they predicted that restocking would now start to pick up and were hopeful that business would stabilise through the rest of the year.
“It was terrible, but it was dazzling. I looked out of the window and saw a huge funnel that was swirling in the forest on the outskirts of the town. I got scared, but then I thought that it was so beautiful. I told my husband to come to the window to look at the twister. All of a sudden, the funnel started moving towards us. The wind was lifting cars and small garages in the air, overturning garbage cans. The trees were cracking into parts like matches,” Galina Starchenko, a resident of the town of Krasnozavodsk in the Moscow region said.
A new report released on May 26th at a major ITTO-RRI conference in Cameroon finds that Africa is moving much slower on tenure reform than other regions.
OSLO : Scientific organisations are working to link up thousands of computer databases of animals and plants into a one-stop "virtual observatory" that could be similar to global systems for monitoring the weather or earthquakes.
