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News ANCHORAGE- Successive hot summers, vast swaths of insect-weakened trees and lightning strikes have combined to torch about 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of forest in Alaska this summer, nearly tying the state's third-largest fire season on record, federal and state officials said on Tuesday.
News Yaoundé – Lukong Pius Nyuylime The strategy was officially presented to the public in August in Yaounde Five silent threats to the sustainable management of the forest have been identified. These are: absence of national control strategy for exploitation of forest and wildlife, approximate understanding of laws and regulations, inadequate organization, competence and lack of equipment; limited involvement of the civil society and business operators in the implementation of the forestry law and poor collaboration with partner administrations.
News The state managed real estate owners Statskog in Norway and Sveaskog in Sweden have jointly founded the limited company Inatur Nordic as. The new company will further improve and develop the Norwegian website inatur.no. Furthermore, the company will market and sell hunting and fishing trips, outdoor activities and nature travelling in both countries.
News Scientists have finally identified a small insect that has been sucking the life out of the nation's pine forests. The sap sucking Essigella californica aphid has been defoliating up to 30 per cent of the forest canopy, costing the industry about $20 million a year in lost production.
After many years of preparation the work of Hungarian scientists in forestry and wood sciences has been presented in the foreign language edition of Acta Silvatica et Lignaria Hungarica. Rezső Solymos, (Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) writes about this in the introduction to the first publication of the periodical.
National Association of Forest Industries – Recent comments and concerns over the increase in Australia’s plantation estates fail to recognise the importance of Australia’s plantation sector. With an annual trade deficit of $2 billion per annum, Australia’s dependence on plantation timber is increasing rapidly.
News Byline: Jerry Hirsch and Henry Chu RONDONOPOLIS, Brazil — This Amazon nation's drive to become the world's breadbasket hinges on farmers such as Carlos Augustin, who grows cotton and soy in an area that would cover more than half of the San Fernando Valley.
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth today announced the appointment of Corbin Newman as director of forest management. Newman, currently the National Fire Plan coordinator for the Forest Service, replaces Chuck Myers who was recently named regional forester for the agency's Southern Region.
News Luisa Massarani [FORTALEZA] A Brazilian researcher has used the results of a survey of scientific publications to argue that Brazil must produce and keep more scientists in its Amazon region. Adalberto Val told the 57th annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, held last week in Fortaleza, that only 22 per cent of research papers about the Brazilian Amazon published in the first four months of 2004 were by local researchers.
News The total area of forests in the Czech Republic has been constantly expanding and is now much larger than before 1989, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) reported. Since 1966 the forest area has increased by 50,000 hectares. Last year it amounted to 2,645 million hectares.
Dear Sir/Madam: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is currently in its Third Phase (April 2004-March 2007) of strategic research. It is currently seeking applicants for researcher for Forest Conservation project (FC). Further details on the position and how to apply can be found in the Recruitment Announcement.
News Byline: Theresia Sufa If Indonesian forests were hospital patients, they would be late-stage cancer patients with their days numbered, the Minister of Forestry says.
About World Water Week The World Water Week with the 15th Stockholm Water Symposium takes place August 21-27, 2005 at the Stockholm City Conference Centre/Folkets Hus.
News The first phase of the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of Scotland's native woods and forests is under way Surveyors from Forestry Commission Scotland and Forest Research will spend the next few years scouring brae, glen, moor, field and town to discover exactly how much native woodland Scotland has, what types of native woods they are, what condition they are in, where they are, and a range of other information.
News A SIBERIAN tiger pounced on a teenage girl, killing her as she posed for a picture at an animal sanctuary. The animal was being restrained by a handler when it attacked Haley Hilderbrand, of Altamont, Kansas.
News Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park contains the remains of one of the most unusual fossil forests in the world. It was set aside as a historic preserve in the 1930s, after highway construction crews working on the Vantage Road unearthed what proved to be some of the rarest forms of petrified wood ever found. Located one mile north of Vantage, near the geographic center of Washington State, the park is now a registered national natural landmark.
News Photo by Ferenc Gerely Bosnia comprises the third largest forest reserve in Europe Illegal deforestation is stripping the country of a precious natural resource but no one in authority seems keen to do much about it In the villages around the central Bosnian town of Kiseljak, nothing once disturbed the belt of thick, inviting forest that for centuries provided sanctuary for birds, bears and countless other wild animals.
News The Festival of Folk Arts, the traditional meeting of folk artists, will be held this year in the Buda Castle, for the nineteenth time. For four days the best representatives of folk crafts will show the secrets of their crafts, while working in their workshops with the participation of the audience.
