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An increase in forest growth in Finland due to the climate change has been forecast by many. However, it is not certain that this will be realised. It is estimated that the growth of the Finnish forests may as much as double due to the climate change. These estimations are based on research carried out in the 1920s by Professor, Mr. Olli Heikinheimo.
News Bulgaria said Thursday it would ban exports of partially-burnt timber for construction, hoping the move would help reduce the number of deliberately-set fires around the country. The ban comes after a government report showed that some 34,000 hectares (84,000 acres) of forests and land have been destroyed by fires in Bulgaria so far this year, which could result in a 15-year annual record for fires.
News The historic outcomes of the seventh session represent a unique call to action for the international forest community, to ensure that these decisions reached through internationally-agreed consensus are fully implemented, through collective action imbued yet with a sense of individual responsibility.
News Since the 1980s the number of moose felled during the hunting season has decreased by more than half. Only 82,000 moose where felled in the whole country during the last hunting season. That is 8,000 less than in the previous year. The continuous reduction of felled moose seems to be due to a decreasing population, which is a reason for concern among Swedish hunters. Moose is very important for Sweden, not only as the foremost game animal, but also as a national symbol.
News University of Toronto Sunday, August 19th to Thursday, August 23th, 2007 For many decades now, Canada has been primarily an urban society.
A Brisbane university student has been named as a finalist in this year's River Symposium Young Water Scientist Awards. Simon Linke is one of three entrants vying for the national award which acknowledges young Australian scientists for their innovation in water conservation and management.
Roberto Bauch, a pioneer in promoting responsible forestry, passed away on June 22nd 2007, aged 57. Since 1995, Mr. Bauch directed the Latin America Program for Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), an FSC accredited certification body.
By John Oyuke The European Union will finance two environmental management and conservation projects in Taita-Taveta District at a cost of Sh43.6 million. The funds will be channeled through Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF), a joint initiative of the Government and the European Commission, which is aimed at poverty alleviation.
Story by Karl Weisel U.S. Army Garrison Hessen Public Affairs Office Hunting horns sound, dogs sing, men and women in dark green felt coats breathe out steam in the early morning chill as they prepare to head into the forest near Hanau.
According to preliminary state-by-state data from the new 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, Montanans were on average most likely to hunt, Alaskans and Minnesotans were most likely to fish; and residents of Main were most likely to observe, photograph or feed wildlife, in 2006.
The Forestry Commission has suspended the planting of Corsican pine - an important timber-producing tree – in the forests it manages because of the extent and severity of red band needle blight disease. Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii var. corsicana (syn. subsp. laricio) Corsican Pine, Calabrian Pine
Some 1000 bears roam Bulgaria’s mountains and forests. In data from the Ministry of Environment and Water their number has been on the rise in recent years. In the southeastern Rhodope Mountains alone, their population numbers 200. Fifteen bears live in Mount Vitosha on the outskirts of Sofia. Most of the bears are quite friendly. However every year there are reports of bear attacks on livestock.
Iranian engineering students have begun to build an earthquake-resistant model house on the parking lot of the Bergische University, based in the west German city of Wuppertal, IRNA reported. Construction which began on Thursday, is expected to be completed jointly by students of Bergische University and Isfahan Technical University on August 17.
News CAP: Commission launches a call for tender for a study on the development and marketing of non-marketed forest products and services The European Commission has launched a call for tender for a study on the development and marketing of non-marketed forest products and services. The main objective of this study is to acquire summarised information on the state-of-the-art in the field of valuation methods and compensation mechanisms for non-market forest goods and services.
ERDOS, China - China's dusty, vast and windswept Inner Mongolia has been battling the creeping desert for decades. Now a Chinese company is trying to hold back the sand and make money by turning a hardy tree into paper.
Nearly three years since the establishment of the Institute for Forest Certification in Slovenia, and following a thorough standards development process, detailed consultations with stakeholder groups of society and an independent assessment, the Slovenian Forest Certification System SFCS has now achieved PEFC endorsement.
Nathan Vanderklippe VANCOUVER - Canada stands at the very bottom of the world's forestry industries in a new PricewaterhouseCoopers comparison of global capital returns that only adds to the gloom that has overwhelmed the struggling sector for the past year.
By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH MUAR: From college dropout to mushroom millionaire – that sums up the success story of a village boy from Kampung Grisek, near here, who is now the biggest mushroom producer and exporter in the country.
