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News NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Federal prosecutors say a Florida man who illegally possessed and traded feathers of American bald and golden eagles has been sentenced to a $5,000 fine and five years of probation. Authorities announced the sentencing Monday of 51-year-old Ed Winddancer of Port Charlotte, Fla.
By T. V. Padma [NEW DELHI] Scientists from Sri Lanka and Germany have developed a new method to measure biodiversity, and say it could help identify key tree species.
News The Polish Forest Certification Scheme has been endorsed by the PEFC Council following a rigorous assessment process.
Following the decision to boost export tariffs on round timber, Russian authorities now closes down several customs stations on the border to Finland.
Dear Professors: This is an invitation for you & your colleagues to submit abstracts and attend the 1st International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE09), during 5-7 January 2009, Hong Kong - conference website: http://www.hku.hk/icae09 Here are the important dates: 30 April 2008 Deadline for Submission of Abstract 1 June 2008 Notice of Abstract Acceptance 31 August 2008 Full Paper SubmissionWe are looking forward to hear positive reply from you & your colleagues. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any suggestion for this special event. Best regards Professor Dennis Y.C. Leung Conference Chair, ICAE09 ycleung@hku.hk
Press review Unasylva No. 229 Vol. 58, 2007/4 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2007 Editor: A. Perlis Editorial Advisory Board: F. Casta?eda, R. Czudek, T. Hofer, D. Kneeland, A. Perlis, L. Russo, T. Vahanen, P. Vantomme, M.L. Wilkie Emeritus Advisers: J. Ball, I.J. Bourke, C. Palmberg-Lerche Regional Advisers: C. Carneiro, P. Durst, P. Koné, E. Mansur, K. Prins Unasylva is published in English, French and Spanish. Payment is no longer required. Free subscriptions can be obtained by sending an e-mail to unasylva@fao.org
News US Forest Service Law Enforcement & Investigations Washington D.C. Law enforcement is an integral part of the overall management of the National Forest System. Law enforcement personnel, line officers, and appropriate staff ensure that prevention, investigation, enforcement, and program management requirements are fully integrated into all National Forest System resource management programs.
News Timber has played a central role in the redevelopment of Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Pier 2E, the jetty attached to the terminal, has been refurbished in ash-veneered birch plywood cladding and glulam supported by a steel frame and covered in a glass shell, as part of a reconstruction following the collapse of the original concrete structure in 2004.
A new study of the impacts of various rural land uses on water resources challenges assumptions that plantation forestry is causing reductions in catchment water flows. The study shows that any lessening of water flows in recent years has more to do with lower rainfall, or changed rainfall patterns, than with forestry, or indeed other land use changes such as the switch from grazing to cropping.
News Should it flood, the boar would hane no trouble swimming out. Wild boar are good swimmers and one individual wild boar has been reported as having swum across a 700m wide river. Wild boar can range long distances and one animal has been known in Kampinos National Park, Poland to move over 250km. Long distance dispersal may be related to the type of landscape, population density and hunting pressures.
As announced earlier, the UNECE/FAO Timber Section in conjunction with the University of Hamburg, is organizing a workshop on National Wood Resource Balances - Empirical data gathering on sources and uses of woodIt will be held in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland on 31 March – 1 April 2008.
Dear colleague, Welcome to the March 2008 illegal logging email from Chatham House. We send these emails regularly to keep you informed of updates to the illegal logging website and our current work. Procurement workshop, 7-8 April, Copenhagen
Stumps contain more than 20 % of all biomass of coniferous trees, says the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The university will make an extensive investigation and invest in research to find out the positive as well as the negative consequences of stump extraction.
Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition Horst Seehofer Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Foreword Facts and fi gures are clear and unequivocal.
News A new type of mushroom unique to the Losa valley to the north of Burgos province has been identified by experts from Sestao's Natural Sciences Society.c "I've been looking at it for twenty years, convinced that it belonged to a different species" explained one of them, José Luis Pérez Butrón.
News The Russian National Council of Forestry Certification has submitted the Russian National Forest Certification System for PEFC endorsement. Its full documentation is available at the PEFC Council website www.pefc.org for public consultation and all interested individuals and stakeholders groups are invited to comment on the system by 30 March 2008.
EOL - Encyclopedia of Life WASHINGTON — The first 30,000 pages of the online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled Wednesday as part of an ambitious project to catalogue the 1.8 million species known on Earth.
Commercial forestry, often slated as monoculture, may have an important role to play in maintaining biodiversity. This beneficial effect occurs in nearby fields grazed by livestock, rather than the forest itself. This surprising finding could be important for the conservation of grassland species, which have declined dramatically over the past 100 years as agriculture has intensified in Europe.
