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News The Russian Federation has launched several international forestry initiatives during its first attendance of the FAO's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome on March 13, 2007. (COFO is the top collegiate body of the FAO's forestry programs that meets on a biannual basis. Russia joined the FAO in 2006.)
News Brussels, 20th of March, 2007: In a festive atmosphere the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially opened the newly established European Forestry House by pointing out the great potential of such a house help emphasise the importance of forestry for Europe.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA has the potential to match powerful nations if it can market its cultures and traditions as well as manage its vast natural resources. This could be achieved if the media stopped publishing negative stories about the country.
News Researchers from Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation are hoping a star appearance on Italian television will help efforts to preserve the critically endangered gilbert's potoroo. A crew from an Italian TV network has spent the past few days on Bald Island, near Albany in southern Western Australia, shooting footage of the potoroos, as well as filming department scientists tracking and trapping the animals.
News Rome - For the first time, FAO will display at the upcoming Committee on Forestry (13-16 March), a historical collection of rare forestry books dating back to the eighteenth century that provide a snapshot in time of the state of forest research as it first developed in Central Europe and evolved through the beginning of the twentieth century.
Montreal – Sustainability for Success is the theme of the 2007 ForestLeadership Conference, geared towards decision makers and practitioners in the North American forest and paper sector. The event will feature some twenty prominent speakers and will be held in the same venue as, and just prior to, the 20th PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Conference.
News By MARTA FALCONI ROME — The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
News European researchers have recently provided, for the first time, evidence of a significant decline in wild bee diversity in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands over the past 25 years. The scientists also observed that the loss of this pollinator’s diversity is consistent with the loss of bee-pollinated plants.
News As a station of the procedure started in Vienna in December 2004, the scientific body of GOFOR met in Budapest on March 2, 2007. The objective of the meeting was to introduce and discuss the actual situation of the International Convention on the Carpathians and the Balkans, as part of multilateral international forest policies, as well as to introduce and discuss the results of the GOFOR EU research program on national forest analysis.
BEIJING - Six schoolboys playing with lighters started a fire that engulfed a forest in southwest China and took 10,000 firefighters two days to put out, state media reported on Friday. The fire was started on Thursday morning and spread over 233 hectares (575 acres) in Yunnan Province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing government sources.
News One of the most significant bands of the popular music era, Blondie, has announced a special date for this summer, when they will play Thetford Forest, Suffolk, as part of the Forestry Commission’s 2007 Forest Tour. Blondie’s show will be supporting The Commission’s valuable social and environmental programmes.
News LJUBLJANA - Slovenian Environment Minister Janez Podobnik has approved an unchanged hunting quota of 100 brown bears in 2007, but a leading conservation body said the region's bear population could not sustain such a loss. "(We) expect that the quota will ensure favourable conditions for the (brown bear) population," the ministry said in a statement on Friday. The quota was based on an estimate that there are 500 to 700 brown bears in Slovenia and on the government view that the number of bears would become excessive unless kept in check.
News Statistics compiled by the Swedish pellet industry indicate that pellet sales reached record levels in 2006. Pellet consumption for heating detached houses increased by almost 50 %. That means that owners of such houses now consume more pellets than industry.
News By JEFF BARNARD GRANTS PASS, Ore. – In 2006, 89,000 fires burned across 9.5 million acres across the U.S. The Forest Service spent $1.5 billion fighting those fires – about $100 million over budget. Using fire scars on nearly 5,000 tree stumps dating back 450 years, scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming.
Preparations are under way for the XIII World Forestry Congress, to be held from 18 to 25 October 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is expected that this event will attract about 4 000 participants from more than 100 countries. The World Forestry Congress is held every six years and is co-sponsored by FAO and the host country.
News Ulmus procera Salis Millions of conifers and other non-native trees are to be felled in the next 20 years to regenerate indigenous trees in England's woodland. Oak, ash and beech would be encouraged to naturally seed and regenerate, said Forestry Minister Jim Knight, and Lord Clark, of the Forestry Commission.
News A project has been initiated in Finland for investigating the question if transportation of wood based energy by waterways would be a working and financially advantageous alternative. One aspect of the project is to find out if waterway transport could be a better alternative than truck transport.
News On February 27, 2007, Russia's Natural Resources Minister Trutnev chaired the first meeting of the Forestry Board (Lesnaya Kollegia) at the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia.
