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JAKARTA, Indonesia – The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task – to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction. The 5-year-old rhino, Andalas, traveled from the Los Angeles Zoo in the United States to Jakarta's international airport on a two-day journey. The rhino was fed fresh green leaves upon arrival in the tropical island nation.
News BRUSSELS – The European Union said Wednesday it has given Poland a week to stop work on a highway running through a unique protected habitat in a test case of how the new EU member states deal with environmental issues. "We don't accept irreversible damage," EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told reporters. If the Polish government does not back down in a week, Dimas said he will seek an injunction from the EU's highest court to suspend the highway project.
News News from the Campaign Tree-nation.com is a new community website, run by an international team, based in Barcelona, Spain. Together with you, they will create a park by planting 8 million trees in the shape of a giant heart in the Saharan desert, to fight Poverty, Global Warming and Desertification.
News The UK public is being called upon to help hunt for a rare grass-like plant. Botanists recently discovered a species of sedge growing on the west coast of Scotland that had never before been seen in Britain. Saltmarsh sedge, or Carex salina, is found along the coast of Scandinavia, northern Russia and the eastern seaboard of North America.
News Story by Sonya Dowsett MADRID - Builders will erect three-metre (nine-foot) high fences along a strip of road around a national park in southern Spain to stop rare Iberian lynx ending up as road kill, the Andalusian local government said on Friday.
News Bulgaria has significant potential for the development and use of renewable energy sources and bio-fuels, Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Valentin Ivanov said. A law regulating the utilisation of such energy sources was currently being drafted, Ivanov said.
News ICRAF presents 20 years of research on trees and water Communications Unit Ever increasing water scarcity across the world has triggered a heated debate: Does planting trees ease or worsen water shortages? Last year, an article in the Economist, quoting research from the University of Newcastle, in Britain, and Free University in Amsterdam, argued that planting trees can exacerbate droughts.
News "When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope" – Wangari Maathai France Joins the Billion Tree Campaign Paris, 18 January 2007 - From Paris, France, the United Nations Environment Programme launches a second appeal to the international community to join its first global tree planting project Plant for the Planet: the Billion Tree Campaign.
News Far from being a bad omen, the news from organizer Survey Marketing + Consulting (Bielefeld, Germany) on the 13th "ZOW - East Westphalia Supplier Show" in Bad Salzuflen is simply "house sold out". From February 26 to March 1, 2007, the trade platform for the furniture and interior design industries will present its most diverse program of special events to date.
Unofficial calculations indicate that the part of renewable energy in Finland will increase to 40 % until the year 2020. The corresponding target for the whole EU is 20 %. Demand for wood based raw materials will increase for both heating, traffic and electricity production.
News By Jan Velinger Photo by ForestPress Specialists have revealed that there was a sharp rise in the incidence in tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, in the Czech Republic last year. Some 1000 people contracted the potentially deadly disease which is transmitted by deer ticks: 60 percent more than in 2005.
News By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats dismissed as "unworkable'' the first budget request of new Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell. Kimbell, the first woman to head the Forest Service, came under fire Tuesday as she defended President Bush's request for the next budget year, which deals her agency a spending cut and eliminates more than 2,100 jobs.
News NEW YORK, (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) – To bolster efforts that will promote sustainable management, conservation and development of forests worldwide, the General Assembly adopted a resolution today declaring the year 2011 as the International Year of Forests.
News ‘Recognition of The Positive Impact Made to Improve The Lives of Dogs & Owners’ Representatives from the Forestry Commission attended the Kennel Club headquarters today (Friday 2 February), to receive the KC Dog Recognition Award for ‘a national authority which has made a positive impact to help improve the lives of dogs and their owners.’
News Vancouver has been recognized as a TREE CITY USA since 1989. The TREE CITY USA program is designed to recognize communities that effectively manage their urban forest and meet the four TREE CITY USA standards.
News Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)has indicated that a new tree plantation in the Gellibrand River catchment is likely to improve the quality of water resources A decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has given the go-ahead for a tree plantation to be established in the Gellibrand area in country Victoria, citing the environmental benefits tree plantations offer rural Australia.
News By OLIVER SCHMALE BERLIN - A German appellate court in Stuttgart proposed $19,500 fine Tuesday against a 70-year-old man who fatally beat an escaped golden eagle with his walking stick after it attacked his dachshund. The court agreed with a lower court's decision that a wildlife center that let the eagle escape was partly responsible, but it attributed even more blame to the pensioner, more than doubling his penalty.
News Wolves are being removed from the endangered species list in three US states - and wildlife authorities say they plan to do the same in three more. The move paves the way for the hunting of wolves in the US for the first time in more than 30 years.
