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News By Cynthia Boris You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153) Our love affair with wooden toys stretches throughout history. Archeologists have discovered jointed wooden dolls, carved horses, chariots and even a crocodile with moveable jaws that date back to the year 1100 BC.
News Abies lasiocarpa Norwegians will buy a record number of Christmas trees this year. It is no longer enough to have one Christmas tree for each family. There should be one in the garden and one for each nursery. The forecast is that more than two million Christmas trees will be sold, even though the price is as high as NOK 500 (circa 60 €).
News Wisconsin is recognized as one of the premier deer hunting states in the nation as Wisconsin is home to a thriving deer herd. Wildlife habitat changes during the past century due to farming, logging, and urban expansion have led to the evolution of new method for managing our deer populations in an attempt to control their numbers under a wide array of habitats and social conditions.
News Richard Lisko, who lives near Waucousta, holds out one of the extra legs located halfway up the leg of a deer he hit with his truck last month, Wednesday in Waucousta. Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers ? and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs.
News From November 1, 2006 to January 31, 2007 persons with outstanding innovative ideas from all over Europe, without regard of age or educational background, are invited for submissions. In June 2007 the Schweighofer Prize, the European Innovation Award for Forestry, Wood Technology and Wood Products will be presented for the third time.
News WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands - Current rates of tapping frankincense are endangering the fragrant resin's sustained production, ecologists from the Netherlands and Eritrea warned today. Frankincense is an aromatic hardened wood resin obtained by tapping Boswellia trees. For 2000 years, the resin has been important as an ingredient in incense and perfumes, especially popular in Christian communities at Christmas.
News Video control of wildfires in Special Nature Reservation „Deliblatska Pescara“ Deliblatska Pescara known as Deliblato Send and European Sahara situated in Serbia, authonomy province of Vojvodina. It is spread about 35.000 ha and bounded with Donau river on the south-east. Deliblatska pescara is natural habitation number species which belong savannah’s animal and floral elements and unique in Europe.
OSLO - A new Nobel prize should be created to reward work to protect the environment and combat climate change, a former Norwegian environment minister said on Thursday. But the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said the idea had already been considered and rejected by Sweden's Nobel Foundation. The Swedish philanthropist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel provided for five prizes in his 1895 will -- for peace, literature, physics, chemistry and medicine. A sixth prize, for economics, was created in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden.
News SAN FRANCISCO, California, (ENS) - Planting forests in temperate regions such as the United States and Europe may not yield any benefit for the global climate, and may instead contribute to warming, according to a new study set for presentation Saturday at the American Geophysical Society annual meeting in San Francisco.
News The Forest-based sector Technology Platform (FTP in brief), a European research and development cooperation between industry, forest owners, scientists and other stakeholders, is currently implementing its research roadmap. More than 430 participants from 27 countries met at the 3rd FTP conference in Lahti, Finland to discuss how to get down to work.
News Nine consumers out of ten prefer paper rather than plastic or other package materials, if they had a free choice. This is the conclusion of a Gallup poll commissioned by the interest group "PaperPlus". A total of 6 500 consumers in seven major European countries were interviewed. As much as 93 % of them preferred paper for environment conservation reasons. Somewhat fewer preferred paper because it is more convenient.
PARIS - Birds are delaying their annual winter migration to Africa from France because of the unseasonally warm weather, a French bird protection group said on Thursday. The autumn was the warmest in France since 1950, with temperatures 2.9 degrees Celsius (5.2 F) above seasonal norms, the national weather agency has said.
Denmark is Europe's leading exporter of Christmas trees. Total production is circa 9 million trees, of which 85 % are exported to other European countries. The demand for Nordman fir cultivated in Denmark is particularly strong. Foreign buyers arrived in Denmark already in August to inspect the goods. They came earlier than in previous years and they want to buy greater quantities.
RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian gene bank of plant seeds has become the world's seventh largest, behind banks in United States, China, Germany, Japan, India and South Korea. Gene banks store genetic material from plants or animals — such as seeds, spores or eggs — frozen in cold chambers at minus 20 degrees Celsius, keeping it intact for over 100 years for later use.
They came directly from the home country of Father Christmas, 2000 little Christmas spruces from Finland found their way to new owners in the European Parliament. Santa Claus Assistants, in undercover mission instructed by CEPF, brought the fresh trees to the Members of the European Parliament and their staff.
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially presented her Christmas tree in Directorate-General for Agriculture. CEPF – the voice of European Family Forest Owners – organized the event together with the European Christmas tree growers and the German dairy industry, which served hot chocolate.
News NAFI has warned that Victoria and New South Wales are preparing this weekend to endure one of the worst and most destructive periods of wildfires in their national parks. “As recent history from the 2003 bushfires prove, the failure of state governments to properly manage national park forests has disastrous environmental outcomes,’ said NAFI’s CEO, Catherine Murphy.
WASHINGTON, DC, (ENS) - Updated technical guidelines aimed at helping electric utilities prevent bird electrocutions and ensure reliable power delivery were issued Tuesday by a committee composed of members of the electricity industry and several government agencies. The Avian Power Line Interaction Committee - comprised of members from the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Edison Electric Institute and 18 electric utilities - released 2006 Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines.
