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13 die in ‘swarm’ of Chilean wildfires (wildfiretoday.com)

Author Ron Steffens Posted on February 4, 2023 A Bolivian pilot and a Chilean mechanic died when their helicopter crashed while firefighting in the commune of Galvarino, in the region of La Araucania, 700 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile.

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Hunting, shooting and taxing: call for grouse estates to pay green levy

A shoot in Scotland to mark the ‘Glorious Twelfth’, or 12 August – the start of the grouse season in the UK. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod The Guardian - 7 Nov 2021 Move would encourage landowners to repair peatlands, restore woods and cut carbon emissions, says conservation group

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Reflecting on a decade of ash dieback response in the UK

forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk - Posted by: Barnaby Wylder, Posted on: 6 December 2022 - Categories: Biosecurity, Tree health Barnaby Wylder is our Plant Health Forestry Lead in the North West of England.

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The happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs in America

Analysis by Andrew Van Dam - January 6, 2023 - washingtonpost.com Chris Pryor, director of forest stewardship at the New England Forestry Foundation, at work in the Hersey Mountain Wilderness in New Hampton, N.H., in 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

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Costa Rica's Forest Conservation Pays Off

worldbank.org - 04-01-2023 Costa Rica has become the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to receive payments from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—commonly known as REDD+.

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Should the EU have its own forest policy?

By Lauri Hetemäki - 22/12/2022 - EFI blog When the former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson became the President of EFI’s ThinkForest science-policy forum in 2012, he stated that the EU should have its own forest policy.

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The XV World Forestry Congress

fao.org – 21-12-2022 Originally scheduled for 2021, the XV World Forestry Congress was to address many of the key challenges of the twenty-first century: climate change, biodiversity loss, desertification, water scarcity, malnutrition and hunger, to name a few.

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UK's old trees critical to climate change fight

20-12-2022 - By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News UK forests lock away twice as much planet-warming carbon as previously thought, a new study reveals.

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Scaling Financing for Nature Based Solutions

November 16, 2022 Washington, D.C. 10:00 - 10:45 AM | 15:00 - 15:45 UTC | Cairo: 17:00 - 17:45 Increasing finance for nature-based solutions is critical for the successful implementation of the climate, biodiversity, and development goals.

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Projecting the future of our forests (EFI)

16-12-2022 - Resilience Programme Policy Brief 2022 This policy brief was funded through ForestValue Eranet Cofund Action I-Maestro (Horizon 2020 grant N° 773324) and national funding (FNR grant N° 2219NR189).

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