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SEOUL – Almost all forests on the Korean Peninsula are likely to be at high risk of extinction if the average temperature rises by 6 C at the end of this century, a government report released Friday said.
News Bangkok - One of the world's rarest rabbits was spotted in Indonesia for just the third time in the past 35 years, underscoring the importance of conserving the region's threatened rain forests, a conservation group said on Thursday.
Written by: Maria Dimitrova English version: Iva Letnikova For more than 80 years every first week of April Bulgaria marks “Forest Week”. In recent yeast there is ever less festivity in this event and growing worries as to the future of Bulgaria’s forests. One third of the territory of Bulgaria is covered by woodlands, which places this country 9th in Europe after countries such as Sweden, Spain, France and Germany.
News Jakarta, Indonesia – The Dutch housing associations have committed to building 100,000 houses in the next five years using Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified timber from Borneo. These houses comprise 25 per cent of the total number of houses to be built in the Netherlands over the next five years. The commitment was announced at the Jakarta Conference: Linking Dutch Markets to Borneo’s Sustainable Forest held in Jakarta from 26 to 29 March.
News The department of Natural Resources belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Hungary and the department of Nature Conservation and Forestry of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment of the federal state of Thuringia - including the regional hunting associations and associations of forest owners - have concluded an agreement to continue the cooperation founded in the November of 1997 with the following goals:
Stavros Dimas, Member of the European Commission, responsible for environment Opening speech by Commissioner Dimas 8th Session of Working group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Brussels, 2 April 2007
Prague - The Czech Union of Nature Conservation (CSOP) claims that the Czech Rail (CD) company unlawfully fells trees along tracks, but CD reacts saying that it only applies the relevant law, daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes today.
News The Polish government has confirmed that it will permit a controversial section of the Via Baltica expressway – the Augustów Town bypass – to plough through the country’s treasured Rospuda Valley in north-east Poland, threatening an importsnt ecosystem and mammal migration area.
A recent salary survey conducted by the Association of BC Forest Professionals (ABCFP), shows that the average forest professional in BC earns $66,300. According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian salary (in 2005) was $38,010, making forest professionals some of the top wage earners in the country.
News The chance discovery of a rare and ancient trapdoor spider in the Walpole Wilderness Area of southern Western Australia is likely to change the way the southern karri and tingle forests are managed. The moggridgea tingle spider dates back more than 140 million years to the time when Australia formed part of the Gondwana super-continent.
News Edited by Luca Tacconi Foreword by Frances Seymour, Director-General, CIFOR Part of the Earthscan Forestry Library • Illegal logging is massively widespread – more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries – and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities?
News The Annual Meeting 2007 of the International Family Forestry Alliance, IFFA, is now scheduled to Wednesday 3 October 2007 in Munich, Germany. The Annual Meeting will be arranged in connection with the general assembly of PEFC, starting the day after. The IFFA Annual Meeting will take place in Wednesday afternoon.
News By BOB HOOD Meleagris gallopavo – wild turkey Stationary turkey decoys are being displaced by more reliable string- or remote-control operated motion decoys. What's the trick to turkey hunting? Tricking the turkeys.
News Spring is on its way in Southern Sweden. Now is the time for planting new saplings to replace storm felled forest. The company "Svenska Skogsplantor" has grown 140 million saplings for satisfying replacement needs after the storms Gudrun and Per. In Southern Sweden big and strong bare root saplings are needed to withstand competition with the abundant growth of brushwood, grass and other plants in treeless and bare areas.
The Forest Owners’ Union of Northern Finland believes that the demands for additional protection will endanger the future of the whole forest sector in Lapland.
News Story by Henrique Almeida (PWN – Pine Wood Nematode – Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) ALCACER DO SAL, Portugal - Fernando Silva shook his head as he watched two lumberjacks cut through what remained of his small pine forest in the south of Portugal.
News BRUSSELS - European Union member states are falling behind a 2015 clean water target, the union's environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Thursday. "Only 43 percent of groundwater and 28 percent of surface water now meet, or are likely to meet, the quality targets by 2015, and this is not acceptable," Dimas told a news conference on the United Nations' "World Water Day."
Story by Julia Hayley MADRID - Some of the world's leading meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans were responsible for global warming.
