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10 Dec, 2017 - rt.com A huge blaze has engulfed and destroyed a 16-story wooden tower, known as the tallest of its kind in Asia, after a fire raged through a monastery in Sichuan Province, southwest China.
A year after the first FLEGT licences from Indonesia entered the EU market (15 November 2016), it is expected that Ghana will soon become the second country to export FLEGT-licensed timber to the EU (see the Ghana update below), and the first in Africa.
Press review József Lanszkia, 1, Gergely Schallyb, Miklós Heltaib, Nathan Ranc - sciencedirect.com 08-12-2017 The Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) is currently undergoing a rapid range expansion.
Mycorrhizal fungi are a type of fungi that help trees feed on minerals in the soil and, in turn, feed off sugars in tree roots. New research by a US Forest Service scientist and partners suggests that the type of mycorrhizal fungi dominant December 1, 2017 - phys.org New research published by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and Purdue University suggests that tiny soil fungi that help and are helped by trees may influence a forest's vulnerability to invasion by non-native plants.
News By Dana Hedgpeth November 27 A nearly 80-foot tall Christmas tree is set to arrive Monday at the grounds of the U.S. Capitol from Montana.
Press review 01-12-2017 - By STEPHEN FLOYD H&N Staff Reporter - heraldandnews.com Klamath County expects to receive roughly $32,608 from a $1.4 million federal payout to O&C Lands Act counties.
By Elizabeth Joseph and Steve Almasy, CNN - November 25, 2017 A woman walking her dogs near her western New York home was fatally shot Wednesday by a man who told police he mistook her for a deer.
News Budapest, 18 October 2017- When the health, biodiversity, or even long-term survival of forests is at risk, the culprit is not always logging, road-building or urban sprawl.
Press room Budapest, Hungary - 17-19 October 2017 Final Draft - PROGRAMME Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
News Photo: Patrick Herzog AFP - October 16, 2017 Russian forestry officials said 86 bears had to be shot dead because they were hostile
A public lecture by Andrew Heald Technical Director for Confor: Promoting Forests and Wood, Confederation of Forest Industries (UK)
Kyodo - Sep 18, 2017 - japantimes.co.jp KOCHI – A town in Shikoku has developed a meat-processing truck designed to quickly slaughter wild boar and deer killed by hunters, in an effort to utilize game that previously went to waste.
Patrick Barkham - Saturday 16 September 2017 Villagers in the Forest of Dean back plans to release a beaver family to protect their homes by damming waterways Beavers could be put to work building dams to stop a village from flooding in the Forest of Dean, in what would be the first such scheme on government land.
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer Sep 6, 2017 - bozemandailychronicle.com Montana officials want to cut down some trees on state land south of Bozeman, but a group of locals who oppose the project want to pay the state to leave it untouched.
News 01-09-2017 - Information for environment sector organisations on raising awareness amongst staff and visitors
Press review By Nick Huisman on August 8, 2017 - wilderness-society.org - Romania is home to the largest number of brown bears in Europe, approximately 6,600 individuals.
Press review 17 August 2017 - bbc.com Tens of thousands of trees have been brought down by storms that wreaked havoc across northern and western Poland, the forestry service says.
Corby Lamb - June 20, 2017 - vancouversun.com While forestry remains solidly one of British Columbia’s most important industries, real change continues.
