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News Best reason of the week for losing a World Cup match Ukrainian defender Vladislav Vashchuk claims they lost 4-0 to Spain because of noisy frogs outside the team's hotel. 'Because of the frogs' croaking we hardly got a wink of sleep,' explained Vashchuk.
The Global Importance of the Boreal Forest: Migratory Birds and the Paper Industry 10 - 13 September 2006 Clare College, Cambridge, UK The conference will feature: Industry – NGO – government – science discussions to promote cross-sectoral collaboration and/or communication, build relationships and increase mutual understanding In-depth discussions of the world’s impacts on boreal ecosystems, especially in relation to migratory birds.
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia loses over $100mn every year through the illicit trading of live animals, according to the ministry of agriculture and rural development. An expert with the ministry said that illicit trade with neighbouring countries had lost the country over $100mn.
News The second reading of the new Forest Code Project is again postponed at least until July 2006. However, the schedule of State Duma debates for July 2006 does not include the reading of the new Forest Code, but this schedule is usually not strictly followed.
News The EU Forest Action Plan was adopted on 15 June 2006. It builds on the report on implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy and consequent conclusions by the Council.
News The Forest Tourism Initiative is a collaboration between Scottish Enterprise, Forestry Commission Scotland, VisitScotland and Highlands & Islands Enterprise. Its goal is to enhance the visitor experience of Scotland's forests by working with Forestry Commision Scotland’s (FCS) districts and with Scotland's tourism businesses to improve and develop the forest tourism product.
After two years of planning, Australia's oldest woodchip exporter has abandoned its bid to enter the global softwood market. A glut of softwoods is looming after an infestation of the North American timber beetle in Canada.
News Fuel consumption in felling and in transportation has been reduced by 30 % since 1985. The reason for this favourable development is more efficient machines and systems. This is the conclusion of studies made by Skogforsk, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.
News The blackfooted ferret South Carolina’s Milliken Forestry Resources to receive single largest grant in program’s history ST. GEORGE, S.C. - Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Matt Hogan announced today grants totaling more than $6.9 million are being awarded to private landowners and groups in 35 states through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Private Stewardship Grants program to undertake conservation projects on their land for endangered, threatened and other at-risk species.
News Forest plantations making up for the loss Rome /Larnaka, Cyprus - While many countries in the region have increased their forest area during the period 2000-2005, heavy grazing, wood, clearing of forests for agriculture, and urban development are depleting forest resources in the already forest-scarce Near East, according to FAO.
News WASHINGTON – A diverse group of activists, politicians and businesses is proposing the United States get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The Christian Science Monitor reported that the coalition, which includes governors, industry leaders, farm groups, county officials and environmentalists, has dubbed the proposal "25x'25."
News Story by Julia Hayley MADRID - A plan to start the biggest open pit copper mine in Europe in southern Spain has run into opposition from environmentalists who fear it will pollute a river with poisonous heavy metals. Canadian company Inmet Mining Corporation is preparing a site in the province of Seville to extract 72,000 tonnes of copper cathodes a year from the high-grade Las Cruces mine starting in January 2008.
News Forest owners in the area of western Uusimaa in the southwest of Finland are very interested in voluntary conservation of natural values in their forests. More than 40 sites were offered for temporary or permanent conservation already during the two first years of the three year project, which is a part of the METSO programme.
News Whitetailedeagle Certain wild birds will be afforded increased protection under the law as of tomorrow (Wednesday, 31 May) when new provisions under the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act come into force. The Act creates a new offence of taking, damaging or destroying the nests of certain wild birds at any time during the year.
News European Family Forest Owners at the Green Week in Brussels. Brussels – Biodiversity conservation is an integral part of sustainable forest management. Forests contain the greatest diversity in terms of species, genetic material and ecological processes. Year by year family forest owners - owning more than 60% of European forests - invest in the conservation of flora and fauna habitats to ensure the ecological balance in their forests. “When Private Forest Owners can decide on a self-responsible basis they are much more motivated to invest in biodiversity conservation, as integral part of their livelihood”, said Antti Otsamo from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland.
FOUR remote provinces in the Philippines harbor biologically diverse, yet highly endangered forests. Through the GOLDEN Forests, a five-year project grant awarded by the European Community to the Haribon Foundation, there is hope to breathe life back to these forests. On December 21, 2005, the European Community (EC) awarded a five-year project grant of P 1,439,269 to the Haribon Foundation. The project, Governance and Local Development for Endangered Forests or GOLDEN Forests.
In Southern Sweden 80 % of forest owners' net revenue from felling comes from sawmills and 20 % from the pulp industry. A conventional but unproved allegation is that 70 % of forest owners' net revenue from timber sales come from sawmills and 30 % from the pulp industry.
Wood exported from one of the world's most repressive regimes is available to buy at the UK's premier horticultural show. The gentile surroundings of the Chelsea Flower Show are a world away from the timber yards of Burma but the two were inextricably linked in an undercover sting that exposed the dirt lurking under the fragrant blooms of west London.
