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News UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson , British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.
News Albert Thurman's tidy home is full of bugs. More than 125,000, to be exact. Through a hobby that has spanned three decades and nearly a dozen countries, Thurman, 58, has amassed a collection of butterflies and insects so vast, diverse and well-preserved that two prominent university museums have agreed to accept the collection into their permanent archives.
News Ha Noi - The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will provide 4.5 million Euros to a project on Vietnamese forest management and marketing of forestry products. An agreement to this affect was signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam and the GTZ in Ha Noi on August 30.
News The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has rescued hundreds of citizens in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast 10 days ago. At the same time, the agency continues to clear miles of roadways, support local police and fire department officials, establish emergency corridors to speed the delivery of relief aid, open access to the Louisiana Heart Hospital, and provide critical help to Red Cross relief workers.
News AS part of the collective effort to assist one another in maintaining each nation’s momentum for economic progress and to ensure that the region continues to be favored as a trading partner of other more developed regions, nine of the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are prepared to take the next step in boosting an industry that will allow the regional economies to take a greater share of the expanding global furniture and home decor market. The industry referred to is the rattan production and fabrication industry.
News Chiltern Dynamics and sister company BM TRADA Certification will pave the way for prEN 14351-1 Product Standard for pedestrian doors and windows without fire resistance by staging a major conference for the door and window industry in the autumn. The event entitled ‘European Openings’ will be held in London on Monday 17 October and repeated in Leeds on Thursday 10 November, with the full support of major industry bodies including TRADA, Glass & Glazing Federation (GGF) and Door & Hardware Federation (DHF).
News PEFC Council: The PEFC Council today announced the international endorsement of the forest certification systems from Luxembourg and the Slovak Republic.
BY NIGEL HAWKES British Association Festival of Science WITHIN the next ten years, fields across Europe and North America could be dense with the dancing fronds of elephant grass, a crop with a serious chance of replacing coal and oil in electricity generation Trials have shown that the plant flourishes on most arable land, requires no fertiliser, suffers no pests or diseases and produces huge volumes of material that can be harvested using existing technology and burned in power stations.
September 8, 2005 Lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta)are an economically important species, being used in construction and for pulp. Vancouver BC (SPX) Sep 02, 2005 Biologists studying a lethal blight of lodgepole pines in northwestern British Columbia present strong evidence in the September issue of BioScience that climate change is to blame for the outbreak.
September 7, 2005 A new, eco-friendly technology that has the potential to revolutionise Scotland’s forest products industry is to be developed thanks to a L181,000 research grant, which has been awarded to a team of engineers at the University of Aberdeen.
11th International Silver Fir Symposium Poiana Brasov,Romania 04-09. 09. 2005 Symposium theme: Challenges for the Management of European Silver fir (Abies Alba Mill) Under Changing Climatic and Economic Conditions
News Ministers of the Nordic countries want to improve forests and thereby to strengthen local communities The Nordic ministers responsible for forestry met on 29th – 30th August with politicians and experts in N?debo in Denmark. The subject of the meeting was the value of forests for local communities.
News Reports by Charles Clover, Environment Editor Burning peat bogs set alight by rainforest clearance in Indonesia are releasing up to a seventh of the world's total fossil fuel emissions in a single year, the geographers' conference heard. Tropical peatlands are one of the largest stores of carbon on the Earth's surface and setting them alight is contributing massively to global warming, said Dr Susan Page, senior lecturer in geography at Leicester University.
B.C.’s deeply indented, island-dotted coastline covers more than 25,000 kilometres (15,500 miles) from Washington State north to the Alaska panhandle. Much of the Coast Forest Region is remote wilderness yet most of B.C.’s 4 million residents live in the southwest corner of the province, which includes the cities of Vancouver and Victoria. The forest industry built B.C.’s coastal economy, and remains the number-one industry today.
Forestlands cover over 70% of Alabama (22.9 million acres) and is second in size only to Georgia. There is tremendous diversity in Alabama's forests, from upland oak stands in the mountains of the northeast to coastal hardwood swamps along the Mobile bay.
News Washington – The USDA. Forest Service is taking another step to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina by temporarily rescinding the fee requirement for campgrounds and the 14-day stay limit for camping on some National Forest System lands in the Southern Region. The normal fee range is $4.00 to $25.00 depending on the location.
News MOSCOW - More than 310,000 hectares of forests have burnt down in wildfires in Russia since spring, a source in the Ministry of Natural Resources told Itar-Tass on Friday.
News ST. LOUIS, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced USDA accomplishments and initiatives during a keynote address at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation that will help to set the course for a new era of conservation in the 21st century. "Cooperative conservation is a priority for President Bush and USDA is committed to achieving the hard-driving goals that he has set," Johanns said at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation.
