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News Once hunted, poisoned and misunderstood, the birds and their fate were discussed by ornithologists at Salonica meeting last month Aegypius monachus, the black vulture, survives in the Dadia Forest.
News Hobart Mercury (Australia) A PAPUA New Guinean proposal to combat climate change by paying countries to stop chopping down rainforest is gaining international momentum. PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare has been championing the idea, which was yesterday debated at the UN climate conference under way in Montreal.
News Story by By Alister Doyle MONTREAL - Windmills have far bigger than expected potential for generating electricity in the Third World, according to new UN wind maps of countries from China to Nicaragua. "Our studies show about 13 percent of the land area has potential for development," Tom Hamlin of the UN Environment Program told Reuters on the fringes of a UN climate conference.
News Mr Martin Ferguson AM, MP, Opposition Spokesperson for forestry, has outlined the Australian Labor Party's perspective on national forestry issues Speaking to a group of 150 key forest industry stakeholders yesterday in Canberra, Mr Martin Ferguson AM, MP, Opposition Spokesperson for forestry, outlined the Australian Labor Party's perspective on national forestry issues. Mr Ferguson said that Australia is fortunate to have some of the best foresters in the world working to maintain our forest assets in perpetuity.
News Not far from the putative home of Santa Claus in Lapland is Sodankyla, home to an old wooden church. ALEX VAN RENSBURG visited the church. The wind is cold and fresh; around me snow-covered mountains gaze down upon sparkling lakes. Waterfalls like silver strings of lace adorn the scene. Above all this, the sun shines majestically for 24 hours a day. It is summertime in Finnish Lapland.
News New York – Governments Becoming More Effective In Tackling Illegal Logging, UN Reports Facing lost revenues of some $5 billion annually as a result of illegal logging, governments are becoming increasingly innovative – and effective – in tackling the problem, according to a new United Nations report.
News Brussels, December 1, 2005: Today Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially presented her Christmas tree accompanied by fresh home-made cookies in Directorate General Agriculture.
News VANCOUVER -- How much is a forest worth if it's simply left standing instead of being logged and sent to a mill? That question, in simple terms, is what researchers from the Pembina Institute set out to answer in a two-year study that calculated for the first time the "natural capital" contained in Canada's boreal forest ecosystem.
News Tryst Williams A WOODLAND charity now owns most of Wales' largest ancient forest, after raising more than ?1.5m in just five months. The Woodland Trust yesterday announced it had bought the first 444 acres of Wentwood Forest in Newport and Monmouthshire. And it says it hopes to exchange contracts on the remaining 426 acres by the end of 2005.
News The Faculty of Forestry at the Swedish University of Living Natural Resources (SLU) is starting up a new research programme concerning forest and health. Eight projects in different parts of the country have had green light.
News The secret forests of El Salvador – POLEX: CIFOR's Forest Policy Expert Along with Haiti and Malawi, El Salvador has long been portrayed as a place where over-population and poverty make farmers destroy the forests, resulting in barren treeless landscapes. One often hears that less than five percent of the country has any forest left.
News The MD states that representatives of Governments from Europe and North Asia and from other participating countries:
This year many European families risk having to celebrate Christmas without a Christmas tree. Mr Steinar Haugse from the Federation of Norwegian Christmas Tree Producers says that there is a shortage of about four million Christmas trees in Europe this year. Soon overproduction will be but a memory.
Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Vol. 110 No. 5 Sunday, 26 November 2005 SUMMARY OF THE EUROPE AND NORTH ASIA FOREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GOVERNANCE MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE: 22-25 NOVEMBER 2005 Over 250 ministers, representatives of government, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and research agencies from 48 countries convened in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation from 22-25 November 2005 for the Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (ENA-FLEG) Ministerial Conference.
Wednesday 30 November, 18:00-20:00 in Churchill River room The European Space Agency has pleasure in inviting you to the UNFCCC COP 11 Side Event: Supporting LULUCF from space The conference will take place from 28 November to 9 December 2005 at the Palais des Congr?s de Montréal.
Side Event announcement for COP 11 in Montreal : Title: Avoided Deforestation and Certifying Emissions Reductions A Panel Discussion Monday 28th November, 6-8pm, MacKenzie River Room, Palais de Congres, Montreal .
News This year's "People's Tree" will mark the Forest Service's centennial Year WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the State of New Mexico will proudly present the 34th annual Capitol Holiday Tree to the nation, which will grace the lawn of the U.S. Capitol throughout the holiday season.
News Conference of the Convention on Migratory Species - Nairobi, Kenya, 21 to 25 November 2005, UNEP News Release The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals is a United Nations Environment Programme-linked convention located in Bonn, Germany, with a current membership of over 90 countries. Nairobi/Bonn, 20 November 2005 -An avian flu early warning system, able to alert countries and communities to the arrival of potentially infected wild birds, is to be developed by an alliance of organizations led by the United Nations.
