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News The fires that have until now devastated an area the size of Luxembourg across Portugal are threatening several bird species and the habitats that they depend on. Wild birds are being affected either directly, through being burnt or asphyxiated, or indirectly through loss of habitat, and prey, such as rabbits for eagles.
News New Zealand's (Aotearoa) national bird is the kiwi and the people call themselves kiwis – yet New Zealand’s state-owned coal mining company plans to destroy prime habitat of the endangered great spotted kiwi with a new open pit coal mine.
UNECE region forest products markets respond positively to globalization Geneva - The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) just released the UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2004-2005.
News WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth today appointed Anne Zimmermann as the director of the agency's office for watershed, fish, wildlife, air and rare plants. Zimmermann is currently the deputy director of the office and has served as its acting director for the past year.
News KHABAROVSK - Thirty-three forest fires, covering a total area of more than 116,000 hectares of taiga, are still raging in Russia’s Far East, a source at the local forest protection air service told Itar-Tass on Sunday. The greatest number of fire seats have been reported from the Amur Region and Khabarovsk Territory. The total area of forest fires increased by 113 hectares as of this Sunday.
News Confessions of a Tree Grower "My friends say I am a tree farmer in my heart and a musician in my Soul" - Chuck Leavell Chuck Leavell turns forestry heads big time with his one-man promotion of forestry and especially through his "confessions" of a forest owner. These insightful confessions are collected and recorded in an exceptionally good book called Forever Green - The History and Hope of the American Forest. I'll get to the book in a minute.
Sauna – Quentin Le Guen-Geffrouy, Norway European Timber Council Photo Contest Reflections of Wood in the Eyes are as individual and emotional as the people who look at nature‘s own material in all its beauty. Quentin Le Guen-Geffroy from Norway and his Sight of Wood is the winner of the photo competition Wood in Your Eyes, arranged by the European Wood Magazine Building Europe.
News Peter Beattie MP, Premier of Queensland It is fitting that Queensland — Australia’s Smart State — is hosting the XXII International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress Forest-related issues of a cultural, social, environmental or economic nature will be central in discussions at the World Congress — especially given its theme of Forests in the Balance: Linking Tradition and Technology.
News Boorman and McGregor motorcycled round the world A new drive to "welcome" motorcyclists to Scotland has been launched by tourist organisation VisitScotland. The scheme will give guidance to the tourism industry on the services it can offer to improve the holiday experience for motorbike enthusiasts.
News UNESCO, in partnership with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), has launched a new kit on Desertification in English, French, and Spanish, targeted for use in the classroom by teachers and their pupils between ages 10 and 12.
Invasive and exotic species threaten much of the World's biodiversity and ecosystems. Humanity has had very little success in addressing these super competiters which thrive in human disrupted ecoystems. Yet genetically modified super weeds that share these traits and more are a real possibility in the age of Franken-agriculture. Now it has been reported that a wild relative of the oilseed rape has picked up the traits of engineered crops.
Michigan’s native elk disappeared around 1875. Today’s elk herd dates back to 1918, when seven western animals were released near Wolverine. From that reintroduction, the number of animals grew steadily to about 1,500 elk in the early 1960s. They reached the point where limited hunting was possible in 1964 and 1965.
News Tropical rainforests disappear at an alarming rate causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Rainforests are hot spots of biodiversity as well as important carbon sinks. Despite an increased recognition of the value of these and other valuable public goods provided by tropical rainforests at national and international levels, the rainforests of Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America continue to be seriously threatened by various forms of human encroachment.
News by Joshua Goldstein Australia's Five-Million Dollar Experiment with Market-Based Instruments Australia launched the National Market-based Instruments Pilots Program two years ago with a five million dollar investment in eleven pilot projects designed to explore the utility of market-based conservation mechanisms on agricultural land.
News BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Thursday hailed a six-nation climate change pact unveiled by the United States and Australia, saying it would boost efforts to fight global warming.
News New approach to forest fires suggested to Mediterranean countries 25 July 2005, Rome - Mediterranean countries could save lives and billions of euros every year if they better trained and mobilized communities in forest fire prevention and control, FAO said today.
News More than 130 fires covering 100 square kilometres of forest are burning in northern Quebec, making this summer one of the worst fire seasons in the province in half a century. Quebec's SOPFEU, the agency in charge of the province's forests, says up to 17 of the fires are burning out of control.
News The Viken Forest Owners’ Association has concluded a three year contract with the Oslo airport Gardemoen concerning the annual supply of circa 51 GWh of bio-energy. That is the equivalent of about 27 000 cubic meters of wood in the form of chips.
