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CIGAR Room, Ayodya Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali Sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation: building on past experience There is extensive experience worldwide in sustainable forest management – putting in place the policy, institutional, technical and financial frameworks needed to sustain and enhance social, economic and environmental services from forests.
News WASHINGTON, - A recent Forest Service determination finds climate change could affect the distribution and diversity of plants and animals in the United States. In an update of the 2000 Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment (US Forest Service 2001) conducted by the Forest Service, 15 key findings have emerged since the publication of the original assessment. on the status and trends of natural resources of U.S. forests and rangelands.
By Simeon Bennett (Bloomberg) – Australia said it opened a climate-change research center two days after the nation's newly elected government ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Prices for Swedish forest land continue to rise, although somewhat slower than before. In the first half of 2007 prices increased in the whole country by an average of 12 % in comparison with the whole year 2006.
News Florian Möllers, (Germany) Wild boars have increased tenfold in Europe since the 1950s because of changes in agriculture, the lack of predators and a fall in hunting. For the past 40 years, they have been living in the suburbs of Berlin.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — The Japanese government is planning to propose at an upcoming international conference a system to monitor rain forest destruction on a major scale by employing Japan's satellite technology as part of efforts to fight global warming, government sources said Sunday.
News The Portuguese Millennium BCP Bank, along with Bucharest’s City Hall are building the tallest Christmas tree in Europe. The tree will be placed in Piata Unirii park.
News by Staff Writers Houghton MI – Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond.
News The Finnish traditional everyman rights give everybody an opportunity for recreation in the forests. Increasing out-door activities, hiking, nature oriented tourism and time spent in leisure time houses have created a need for new ways of co-ordinating the use and exploitation of forests and other natural areas.
by Staff Writers London Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be sited in the industrial town of Port Talbot on the south Wales coast. It will cost 400 million pounds (830 million dollars, 560 million euros) to construct.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay closed a second entry point on its border with Argentina to stop protestors crossing for a demonstration in an ongoing environmental dispute over a Finnish paper mill, the Uruguayan navy said Saturday. The order to close the General Artigas Bridge linking the two countries across the Uruguay River was given by Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez after Argentine protestors said they would head near the site of the mill, naval coast guard sources told AFP.
EISENACH, Germany - German environmentalists on Thursday said they had begun building a densely wooded corridor for wildcats between two parks in a bid to save the species from extinction. The first ash tree was planted along a 1.2-kilometre-long (0.75-mile-long) path that will link the Hainich National Park in eastern Germany to the Thueringia forest, said Angelika Zahrnt, the head of the environmental federation BUND.
The Swedish Forest Agency will initiate co-operation with China. That was agreed when the Chinese Forest Minister Zhou Shengxian visited Sweden in order to make contacts and to study Swedish forestry. Mr Göran Enander, Director General of the Forest Agency, and Minister Shengxian signed a co-operation agreement.
An absurd and misfortunate situation is evolving in Denmark. Owners of deciduous forests will be imposed with restrictions, costs and work without any compensation. Consequently, the forest owners are urged to plant conifers instead of deciduous trees.
A new survey published today (Thursday November 15) reveals that the majority of Scots believe trees are "good" as they help in the battle against climate change. The survey, carried out by Forestry Commission Scotland, included over 1,000 interviews to find out what people in Scotland think about different aspects of forestry.
Tigers in a north China zoo that was too poor to properly feed them turned on each other, killing and eating one, zoo authorities said yesterday. "There is no money. Of course (the incident) was caused by a lack of food," a woman in the director's office at the Shenyang Bingchuan Wildlife Park told Reuters.
Washington's rich heritage of natural resources and the state economy's connection to healthy forests and productive lands are at the heart of two significant anniversaries being celebrated. The University of Washington College of Forest Resources is turning 100. Established in 1907, the program grew from eight undergraduate students and two graduate students to an enrollment of more than 700. The college was known as the School of Forestry until 1967.
Upon his death bed at the turn of the 20th century devastated by the atrocious use of his peace time invention of the dynamite for killing people in wars the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel set up a fund to award outstanding achievements in medicine and physiology, physics, chemistry, peace and literature. In the 1960s the Nobel Committee set up a sixth category – for economy.
