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Australia plans to lead an international effort to use satellites to monitor forests in the Asia-Pacific region. The plan will be unveiled at a meeting of ministers and diplomats from 70 countries gathering in Sydney today.
Bugs were alot bigger 300 million years ago A new study shows that the decrease of oxygen in the air has caused the insects to be much smaller than what they were 300 million years ago.
Swedish forest industry is the leader in investing in mobile broadband in the whole country. There are prospects of saving millions of euros when the forest industry's data centre, all forest machines and all trucks and interconnected by broadband.
News But how are they affecting family forests? In several parts of southern and eastern Europe, hundreds of forest fires have been reported. Summer wildfires are usual in Greece and this year more than 400 have already been reported, a scorching of 4,500 hectares of dense forest resulting in the deaths of hundreds of animals. In Italy, summer wildfires are also common. This summer, Calabria and Sicily were among the worst hit areas. On the French Riviera, fire-fighters have managed to contain the flames but more than 2 000 hectares of pine forests were nevertheless ravaged. In Spain, fires raged over pine forests on the island of Gran Canaria and Tenerife scorching 35,000 hectares.
News Swedish households and businesses become better and better at recycling paper. Last year constituted an all time record when the quantity collected amounted to 1,123.000 tons. More than three quarters of all paper products were recycled and used for producing new paper.
News Persian Gulf island of Kish A timber factory was inaugurated on Iran's Kish island. The first unit of the Middle East's largest timber industries factory has been inaugurated on Iran's Persian Gulf island of Kish.
News Dear Forests-L readers, The Overseas Development Institute is pleased to announce the availability of the latest publication in the ODI Forestry Briefing series. (http://www.odi.org.uk/fpeg/publications/policybriefs/forestrybriefings/0707_forestrybriefing13_carbonoffsets.pdf)..
News Rural-urban migration can increase vulnerability to forest fires Rome - Record summer temperatures and hot dry winds have made parts of the Mediterranean a tinder box with fire-fighters working around the clock to control blazes threatening people and vegetation on thousands of hectares of southern Italy, Greece, and other parts of the Mediterranean, FAO said today.
LUCKNOW: India's most populous state planted more than 10 million trees in a single day on Tuesday as part of an environmental awareness drive, authorities said. Farmers and students were mobilised to plant the record number of trees across the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 160 million people.
Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull will seek to promote his own global climate initiative at a meeting of officials from 70 countries in Sydney next week. The international conference, which will run for three days from Monday, is the first opportunity for countries to signal their support for Mr Turnbull's Global Initiative on Forests and Climate Change. Australia committed $200 million to the initiative when it was announced by Mr Turnbull in March.
News Story by James Kilner MOSCOW - Russia will use satellites to catch loggers felling its vast Siberian forests known as the "green lungs of the planet", the state forestry agency said on Wednesday. Ancient taiga woodlands which cover much of Siberia are protected by Russian law, but since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union illegal loggers have cut down millions of trees, mainly for sale in neighbouring China.
News By Kipchumba Kemei The first group of hundreds of wildebeests crossed Mara River from Tanzania to Kenya at the weekend as a number of tourists flocked the area to witness the annual migration. More wild animals are also expected to cross the crocodile infested river from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in the next three weeks.
BELGRADE - A heatwave that has roasted much of the Balkans for a week abated in the north on Wednesday but sizzled on in Greece and left scores of wildfires throughout the region. An Ilyushin water bomber aircraft borrowed from Russia was doing its best to put out forest fires in Serbia, while Albania waited for whatever help it could get.
The Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) says it is considering defying the government's proposed ban on election-year advertising by lobby groups, set to be announced by Justice Minister Mark Burton this week. KFA spokesman Roger Dickie says according to Forestry Minister Jim Anderton's own calculations, the government has "stolen" $1.25 billion of carbon credits from foresters who have planted trees from 1990 to the present day.
News A new scheme aimed at putting the squeeze on criminals and making the south Wales forest a safer place for everyone to enjoy was launched at the Forestry Commission Wales outdoor theatre in Afan Forest Park on Tuesday, July 17. First there was Neighbourhood Watch, then came Pub Watch. Now, FC Wales is launching Forest Watch - a community crime prevention initiative targeting crime and anti-social behaviour in the woods of South Wales.
News SALT LAKE CITY — A hybrid scrub oak that looks like a tall, overgrown shrub in a Salt Lake City historical park is a rare and ancient tree from a time when Utah and the Great Basin were warmer and wetter. The branches of the 15-foot-high tree cover nearly an acre a few feet east of the Mary Fielding Smith house at This is the Place Heritage Park.
News Nairobi - Kenyan wildlife authorities have warned beach hotels to keep watch for nine elephants, which have strayed from their home and may wander onto Indian Ocean shores, said an official on Friday. The family group meandered into a forested area, three kilometres from Kenya's coast, but officials were not sure where exactly they had come from.
News It was recently noted by the commission that the water situation in Europe would continue to deteriorate if temperatures keep rising and no clear strategy is adopted. With water shortages and droughts on the rise, EU pushes for sustainable, continent-wide approach to this key commodity. Summer has arrived in earnest in some parts of Europe.
