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News A night heron is released to the nature in Ningbo, a port city in east China's Zhengjiang Province, March 21, 2009. A number of birds saved by the Ningbo wildlife rescue center were released to the nature on March 21, the World Forest Day.
News A day for global recognition of sustainably managed forests World Forestry Day on 21 March 2009 is an opportunity to celebrate Australia’s forests and the benefits this world-class renewable resource provides for all Australians.
News The Södra forest group and the Gremo Ab machine manufacturer are investing in driverless harvesting. The Besten harvesting system will be tested in actual production for the first time in a joint development venture.
The NEESPI Regional Focus Research Center for Non-boreal Eastern Europe was founded at the Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of West Hungary, in Sopron, in cooperation with NASA, NOAA and RAS
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In 2030, a typical Finnish forest owner will be a 50-year-old, well-educated salary-earner, both born and living in an urban community, a new study says. ”Finnish forest owners are gradually getting younger. In 2030, the average age of forest owners will be about 50 year, whereas now it is 60,” says Ms. Anna-Kaisa Rämö, Forest Economist at the Pellervo Economic Research Institute PTT.
A new method, based on the projection of tree shadows, was developed by researchers at the Canadian Forest Service and the Université de Sherbrooke to estimate and map the biomass in the black spruce forests of eastern Canada.
News Sydney - Half the forest fires in Australia are started intentionally and most arsonists get away with their crimes, an Institute of Criminology report released Sunday showed. The institute put the damage bill for arson attacks at 1.6 billion Australian dollars (1 billion US dollars) a year.
The wind storm caused enormous damage to the forests in northern Spain. The first assessment by the Galician local authorities estimates 40.000 ha extending to more than 1,5 million cubic metres, about 25 % of annual cut, have been affected, principally pine and eucalyptus forests.
By Rudy Ruitenberg (Bloomberg) - The storm that hit France and Spain last weekend felled as much as 70 percent of the pine trees in parts of the Aquitaine region, French forest groups said on Tuesday.
News The Labrador retriever is the most popular pure-bred dog in the United States for the 18th consecutive year, according to the American Kennel Club.
by Staff Writers London, UK - Low levels of invasion were in natural and semi-natural grasslands and most woodlands Biological invasions are one of the major threats to biodiversity and in many cases they have considerable impact on economy and human health. For their effective management it is important to understand which areas and ecosystems are at the highest risk of being invaded.
This 17-minute video presentation, produced by FAO and the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom, shows how much forests can contribute to the mitigation of climate change, stressing the importance of reversing forest loss.
News NABU (BirdLife in Germany) and their Bavarian partner - Landesbund für Vogelschutz (LBV) - have nominated Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis as their Bird of the Year 2009.
In the beginning of year 2009 an extensive joint Finnish-Swedish programme in forest technology (FIRST) will be launched in the form of a teaching institute for researchers. It will be managed by the Umea faculty of forestry of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and supported by the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.
by Staff Writers Beijing - A pair of Chinese forestry executives cheated thousands of investors out of 160 million dollars by selling off "timber lands" in a barren desert region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Chairman Chen Xianggui of Inner Mongolia's Wanli Afforestation Co. was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a court in the region while general manager Liu Yanying received nine years for the pyramid scheme, the report said.
MICHAEL POLLITT, EDP RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Woodland owners have enjoyed sparking results by investing in forests and trees in the past five years as prices have more than doubled in the past five years.
News This practice originates from the Ancient Britons who believed that trees had spirits.
