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News VIENNA - Austria's brown bear population is facing extinction as only two of the animals -- both males -- are still alive out of a population that had numbered at least 35, the World Wildlife Fund said Friday.
News Foto:ForestPress Forestry company Egererdő Zrt, which manages Hungary's largest uninterrupted foresty area in the northern part of the country, has asked for help from prosecutors, lawmakers and national tax office APEH against organized crime gangs stealing wood. Illegal loggers are causing tens of millions of forints in damage to the company annually, in addition to incalculable damage to the environment and ecosystem, writes stop.hu, based on a report by the MTI.
Ghana is currently negotiating a timber trade agreement, the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), with the European Union, its biggest export market for timber. The agreement which is likely to be reached by early this year will reduce illegal logging, reverse the devastation of the country’s forests and halt the slide in timber sales to Europe.
We recently bid farewell to Mr. Pekka Patosaari who retired from the UN on 31 December 2007 following a long distinguished career in international forestry.
Press review The digital version of the Erdészeti Lapok (Forestry Journal) issued in 1863. January has been completed It was brought up years ago that the earlier issues of the Forestry Journal – which was founded in 1862, Selmecbánya, by Károly Wagner - should be made accessible also for the general public.
By Tim Hirsch In Environment reporter, Brasilia Suppliers of illegally logged timber could be prosecuted in the countries where it is sold, under new proposals. The move is being tabled at a gathering in Brazil of legislators from the Group of Eight (G8) richest economies and five key developing countries.
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — Washington state investigators say poachers apparently are using cars to run down deer near Ocean Shores Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Brad L. Rhoden says a search warrant was served on Wednesday, and the meat and hides from about four illegally taken deer were found at a home in the coastal town.
At a conference in Madrid earlier today, PP leader Mariano Rajoy promised that 500 million trees would be planted over the next four years if his party wins the 9th March general election.
Deadly fish, exotic ladybirds and huge jellyfish are just some of the invasive species which threaten the environment and economy in Europe. So warn researchers who have compiled the first comprehensive database of Europe’s invaders and alien species.
By Matthew Daly WASHINGTON - A Bush administration spending plan that would slash money for the Forest Service could lead to massive layoffs at the agency charged with managing 193 million acres of national forests, Democratic lawmakers said yesterday.
CEPF acquires World Bank project on private and community forestry in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia.
By Steve Connor, Science Editor Anna's hummingbird A small hummingbird has been found to "sing" through its tail feathers rather than its voice-box in the same way a wind musician plays a note on a clarinet.
More moose and deer are being hit by motorists than ever before, and with each collision costing at least NOK 200,000, it's become an extremely expensive problem as well as traumatic for both animal and driver.
BEIRUT: An American University of Beirut (AUB)-led team of scientists has succeeded in determining the causes behind the outbreak of a cedar needle-eating sawfly, Cephalcia tannourinensis, which had threatened to wipe out the cedar forests of Lebanon with its emergence in 1997, a statement issued by the university said on Thursday.
China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century, state media reported Sunday. A total of 43 million acres of forest have been damaged across China as the result of three weeks of savage winter weather, the China Daily website said, citing the State Forestry Administration.
Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry has elaborated amendments to the Forestry Code aimed at opposing illegal deforestation that accounts for 10 percent to 15 percent of the authorized forest procurement. The State Duma has the draft already but the dates of its passing are yet unclear.
When the Lacey Act, named for Representative John Lacey of Iowa, was passed in 1900 it became the nation's first far-reaching federal wildlife protection law. The act was prompted by growing concern about interstate profiteering in illegally taken game. It was amended in the 1930s and 40s, and again in 1981.
LONDON: Evolution is helping elephants to fight back against poachers - more of these giant animals are now being born with smaller tusks because hunting for ivory is reducing the gene pool.
