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News Sydney - Half the forest fires in Australia are started intentionally and most arsonists get away with their crimes, an Institute of Criminology report released Sunday showed. The institute put the damage bill for arson attacks at 1.6 billion Australian dollars (1 billion US dollars) a year.
The wind storm caused enormous damage to the forests in northern Spain. The first assessment by the Galician local authorities estimates 40.000 ha extending to more than 1,5 million cubic metres, about 25 % of annual cut, have been affected, principally pine and eucalyptus forests.
By Rudy Ruitenberg (Bloomberg) - The storm that hit France and Spain last weekend felled as much as 70 percent of the pine trees in parts of the Aquitaine region, French forest groups said on Tuesday.
News The Labrador retriever is the most popular pure-bred dog in the United States for the 18th consecutive year, according to the American Kennel Club.
by Staff Writers London, UK - Low levels of invasion were in natural and semi-natural grasslands and most woodlands Biological invasions are one of the major threats to biodiversity and in many cases they have considerable impact on economy and human health. For their effective management it is important to understand which areas and ecosystems are at the highest risk of being invaded.
This 17-minute video presentation, produced by FAO and the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom, shows how much forests can contribute to the mitigation of climate change, stressing the importance of reversing forest loss.
News NABU (BirdLife in Germany) and their Bavarian partner - Landesbund für Vogelschutz (LBV) - have nominated Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis as their Bird of the Year 2009.
In the beginning of year 2009 an extensive joint Finnish-Swedish programme in forest technology (FIRST) will be launched in the form of a teaching institute for researchers. It will be managed by the Umea faculty of forestry of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and supported by the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.
by Staff Writers Beijing - A pair of Chinese forestry executives cheated thousands of investors out of 160 million dollars by selling off "timber lands" in a barren desert region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Chairman Chen Xianggui of Inner Mongolia's Wanli Afforestation Co. was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a court in the region while general manager Liu Yanying received nine years for the pyramid scheme, the report said.
Inside the covert war on illegal logging. by Raffi Khatchadourian October 6, 2008
MICHAEL POLLITT, EDP RURAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Woodland owners have enjoyed sparking results by investing in forests and trees in the past five years as prices have more than doubled in the past five years.
News This practice originates from the Ancient Britons who believed that trees had spirits.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has set a special deer hunt in northwestern Minnesota as part of its effort to fight the spread of bovine TB.
On Saturday morning (1th November), hundreds will gather in Bitterroot Valley (Montana, US) to officially kick off the season with caroling, speeches and good cheer as they watch the cutting of the 100-foot tall picture-perfect subalpine fir that will eventually end up on the U.S. Capitol’s west lawn.
News 1800s – The Christmas Tree was introduced in the United States by German settlers. It rapidly grew from tabletop size to floor-to-ceiling.
Jakarta - Reconstruction in areas of Indonesia's coastline devastated by the 2004 Asian tsunami is nearly complete four years after the disaster, a key group of international donors said Thursday. The Multi Donor Fund (MDF) of foreign nations and international financial institutions has paid out 334 million dollars of 692 million pledged since May 2005 to help tsunami-hit Aceh province and Nias island, a progress report said.
News The Montreal-based furniture retailer Domison recently revealed a specially commissioned design installation by the design studio Paprika. The ‘ice tree' by paprika was commissioned as a christmas decoration for the store's window installation. the tree is made from canadian mineral glass water bottles assembled together.
Poland plans to sell part of its surplus volume of emission credits to Ireland and the World Bank and spend the proceeds on cutting output of greenhouse gases.
