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News German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) receives a large chess piece from Michael Prinz zu Salm-Salm (L) AGDW-president, Prinz Michael zu Salm-Salm, explains that forest businesses are much more than the guardians of biodiversity.
Ethan Baron It's the season for B.C. residents to take to the province's roads for summer vacations. And it's the season when deer, elk, bears and moose come out to play.
REPORT of the 16th Meeting of the Forest Communicators Network May 13 – 15, 2008, Bilbao/Spain The 16th meeting of the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicators Network was hosted by the Basque Government, the Forest Service of Bizkaia and the Union of Southern European Foresters USSE. 43 people from 16 countries and 7 international organisations participated. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ingwald Gschwandtl from Austria, Leader of the FCN.
News The Czech Environment Ministry has raised the ire of people from a town near the Czech-Slovak border by announcing that it had secured half a billion crowns to build an overpass for bears over the motorway leading to Slovakia, because Slovak bears are allegedly crossing over to the Czech Republic and have no place to cross the road.
News The Nature Conservancy has helped China achieve a conservation landmark: the establishment of that country's first national park, which will also serve as a model for a new Chinese national park system. The new park — Pudacuo National Park in China's Southwest Yunnan Province — is located in one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. While the region comprises only 0.7 percent of China's land area, it contains more than 20 percent of the country’s plant species, about one-third of its mammal and bird species and almost 100 endangered species.
News A local entrepreneur in northern Sweden is planning to build a giant artificial elk that will rise 45 meters from the ground. The elk will among other things house a restaurant and a concert arena. The 45 meter tall elk will be called Stoorn and it now seems like Thorbjorn Holmlunds old dream is about to become reality, according to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
There is no deforestation in Hungary since the Treaty of Trianon! WWF Hungary has announced that the representative of the Hungarian Ministry of Environment has signed the WWF’s huge billboard-sized postcard in Bonn together with the representatives of 63 countries in the international conference on the protection of biodiversity. It was a right action.
Building activity in the USA has decreased and so construction companies are purchasing less European timber Ivan Haluza Ten thousands of tree trunks have ended up in the Liptovska Mara lake. The fact that state owned company Lesy SR decided to store the timber in the reservoir as it could not sell it on the market represents a small revolution in the industry.
Alexandra Paul WINNIPEG -- The reeve for the municipality where the Manitoba's biggest forest fire raged this weekend blames an ATV derby and 600 four-wheelers roaring through the forest as the likely cause of the blaze.
London, (IANS) - A geographer has designed the first ever map showing how fires have scorched the earth every year since the turn of the millennium. The map reveals that between 3.5 and 4.5 million square km of vegetation burns every year — or an area larger than the size of India.
News Informing the debate on the use and production of biofuels, this publication explores the relationship between forests and energy. It considers the present and future contribution of wood in the production of bioenergy as well as the effects of liquid biofuel crop development on forests. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
By Karlis Salna AN ABC website has been accused of portraying farmers and forestry workers as evil, and telling kids how much carbon they can produce before they die.
News Energy plantations are an increasingly popular source of biomass, but new crops require new technology, like specially developed planting machines. So how exactly do they work?
Simplified on-line questionnaire: global on-line survey on non-commercial software and its use on forest management activities in the tropics
Deere & Co has announced plans to significantly expand its presence in Russia, one of the most important growth markets of the company in both agriculture and forestry. Deere has signed an agreement with the Government and local authorities to invest approximately $80 million in a central operations centre which includes a distribution, replacement parts and training facility in the Kaluga region, 62 km southwest of Moscow.
By year 2020, Russia will rationally manage its huge forests and be a major power within wood processing, a new forestry development plan states. The plan, which has been developed by the federal Ministry of Industry and Energy, states that 1.2 trillion RUB will have to be invested in the industry over the next 12 years. The restructuring of the industry will make Russia a leading country within forestry processing, newspaper Vedomosti reports.
Berlin – Rapeseed and sugar cane are out, making way for wood, straw and curdled milk to play key roles as future biofuel energy sources that would not starve the planet by taking over land need for food. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on hand Thursday with the heads of automakers Daimler and Volkswagen to inaugurate what was billed as the world's first refinery of "second generation" biofuels in the eastern city of Freiberg.
Nairobi/Montreal / Bonn - Promoting a Global Response for Addressing the Unprecedented Loss of Biodiversity "Renewing agricultural diversity of crops and livestock backed by a functional natural support system is the international community's best long-term solution to meet the global food challenge,"said Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity prior to the start of the global conference on biodiversity on 19 May 2008 in Bonn, Germany.
