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News Secretary Kempthorne: The Eagle has Returned Secretary Kempthorne emphasized the ongoing commitment of the Interior Department and the entire federal government to the eagle's continued success, noting that bald eagles will continue to be protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
By SHARON LING KUCHING: A man suspected of intimidating a reporter and a photographer for covering a story on seized illegal timber has been arrested by police. The suspect, in his 30s, was picked up in Kota Samarahan near here on Friday afternoon.
HELSINKI - The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday Finland broke some EU rules in granting licences to hunt wolves, prompting the Nordic country to say it would attempt to show culling protects livestock.
Forestry, health and local authorities today launched a joint plan to try to eradicate from London a recently arrived moth that threatens Britain's oak trees and human health. And they want the public to help by reporting sightings of the caterpillars (the moth's larval stage) or its nests.
News PAUL FOY Chad Shimmin of the Utah Wildlife Resources tries to pick up a signal of tracking dogs as he helps search for a bear in American Fork Canyon Monday, June 18, 2007. The bear mauled and killed a 11 year old boy as he slept in his tent Sunday.
Metsäliitto Leading European Wood Products Innovation Award to Finnforest Kerto. The leading European innovation award within the wood products industry, the Schweighofer Prize, has been given to Professor Matti Kairi and Finnforest Kerto Laminated Veneer Lumber products.
HANOI – Vietnam, once rich in forest resources, is now forced to import more than 80 per cent of its timber supplies from abroad, making the country one of the world's biggest importers. Timber is big business. At present there are more than 3,000 firms using it for furniture, wood craft, construction, paper and cardboard. The list of manufacturers is still growing fast.
ZAGREB – The World Bank said it had signed on Wednesday a 100 million-euro (131 million-dollar) loan agreement with Croatia to help the Adriatic country manage its water resources. The funds would "support government efforts to improve water supply and water collection and treatment services, as well as flood protection measures," the bank said in a statement.
There is 320,000 square km of land threatened by desertification in China, a State Forestry Administration (SFA) official said on Sunday. "From 2001 to 2004, the area of sandy land shrank by 1,283 square km each year, but desertification is still menacing some parts of China," Wang Xinjian, deputy director of the SFA's Desertification Prevention Center, said at a seminar held in Shanghai on curbing desertification.
News This was the first National Park to be set up in Greece (1937) and is one of the longest- established in the world. It contains approximately 1,700 species of plant, including some rare and even unique examples of wild flowers.
News Dubbed the country's "Green Great Wall" the Sanbei Forest Shelter project which includes north, northeast and northwest China has made a significant contribution to improving and conserving the ecological environment in these areas since it got underway 28 years ago.
News The latest issue of EFI News focuses on Mediterranean forests with the insight of the Guest Editors Marc Palahí and Yves Birot. Other topics include Russian export tariffs and the role of prescribed burning in mitigating CO2 emissions.
News Picos de Europa is the first Spanish National Park to receive this classification. Its origin dates back to 1918, when don Pedro Pidal, Marquis of Villaviciosa, helped establish the law to create Monta?a de Covadonga National Park. Since 30 May 1935, it has been called Picos de Europa National Park.
News The massive export tariffs that Russia plans to impose on raw timber have become a major stumbling block in negotiations between the European Union and Russia on Russia's possible membership in the World Trade Organisation, Helsingin Sanomat reports.
News A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else in the world has been found on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Two specimens of the newly-named Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeincichii) were discovered by researchers on the Isle of Arran.
ZURICH - Swiss troops are on standby to help clear up a trail of destruction in northern Switzerland after flash floods inundated villages and drowned three people on Saturday. An elderly woman died in the village of Eriswil, in Switzerland's picturesque Emmental region, when her home was engulfed and a couple were also swept to their deaths in the nearby hamlet of Huttwill after a river burst its banks.
News By DOUGLAS BIRCH Chernobyl becomes wildlife haven, intriguing biologists Scientists are confounded by wildlife returning to the site of the world's worst nuclear spill
News David Cameron By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Timber dealers and furniture makers who possess illegally logged wood could face prosecution under Conservative plans to help protect rain-forests from destruction. David Cameron, the Tory leader, said yesterday that creating a market value, through the Kyoto agreement, for keeping rainforests rather than cutting them down was also part of the solution to climate change.
