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News How to ensure that the future of the North American forest and paper industry is green and competitive? This is the question that over 20 prominent speakers from the U.S. and Canada will address at the 2007 ForestLeadership Conference, to be held on May 9th at the Westin Bayshore hotel in Vancouver, BC.
EMRC and PROGIS have the pleasure to invite you to the AgriBusiness Forum 2007 focusing on "Value Chain & Innovation in the World Global Food System" , which will be held on 3-5 June 2007 at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The programme of the new Finnish Government contains a promise to abolish inheritance and gift tax on agricultural and forest property, as well as to use other tax incentives for improving the conditions for timber production.
News By Michael McCarthy The changing nature of British bird life over the past 20 years is to be mapped in detail in a massive new survey by an army of more than 50,000 bird watchers. New species, disappearing species, declines and recoveries will be plotted across Britain and Ireland over four years at a cost of more than L1m.
News IRKUTSK - A 300-hectare wildlife area of the Baikal national park is on fire, an official of the regional department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday.
NELSONVILLE, Ohio - More than 200 acres of charred trees now mar the landscape of Wayne National Forest after a controlled burn aimed at regenerating the woodland's oak species and saving the forest ecosystem.
News Ms Marie S. Arwidson The Swedish Forest Industries Association has commissioned a poll covering 2,800 persons about their attitude to Swedish forestry and forest industry. As much as 88 % of the interviewed persons indicated a positive attitude to Swedish forestry.
News Mexico joins the campaign with 250 million trees Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon, declared that his country would plant 250 million trees in 2007. With this commitment, the Government of Mexico launched the Pro Árbol (Pro tree) Campaign. Its aims to reach one fourth of the goal the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global Campaign has set.
Integrating innovation and entrepreneurship in higher forestry education To whom? For undergraduate and postgraduate students of forestry or related sectors, as for example environment, business or rural development. For students who are interested in new knowledge, international exchange and putting theory into practice by working with real world cases!
News UNFF7 On Tuesday, 17 April, delegates heard ministerial statements and a performance by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City in celebration of the launching of the preparations for the 2011 International Year of Forests (IYF). UNFF Executive Director Patosaari said the IYF will stimulate action on forests, and urged participation of all stakeholders, in particular children and youth, stressing education as the main awareness-raising tool.
News Switzerland's second-biggest bank, Credit Suisse (CS), is facing demands for the financial compensation of indigenous people over the destruction of rainforests. The bank is organising moves by a leading Malaysian timber company, Samling, to float its shares on the stock market.
News BEIJING – Moderate rain forecast on Thursday is expected to help 9,000 fire fighters control a forest blaze that has been burning in northeast China for more than three days. The rain is expected in Heilongjiang Province and northeastern Inner Mongolia, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) forecast.
News Pekka Patosaari PREPARATIONS FOR 2011 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FORESTS LAUNCHED BY UNITED NATIONS FORUM The United Nations Forum on Forests officially launched the beginning of preparations for the 2011 International Year of Forests this morning, with speakers, representing some of the world’s greatest and most diverse ecosystems, stressing the need to use the observance of the International Year as a catalyst for raising global awareness of the urgent need to protect the planet’s fragile forest resources.
News Wildfire07 Sevilla • The increase of the temperature of the planet will produce major water stress and changes in the presence and density of arboreal species, according to a report of the FAO. • This information will be approached in Wildire07, which will have place from May 13 to May 17 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville. • The meeting will work in an international strategy to face this ecological, social and economic problem.
News SHANGHAI - China was sending thousands of personnel to battle a forest fire across a 3 km (1.9 mile) front in its remote northeastern mountains on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Nearly 1,000 firefighters had reached the scene of the blaze in the Great Xingan Mountains, near the Russian border in Heilongjiang Province, after the alarm was sounded on Monday.
This April appears to have been the driest since Germany has been recording the weather. Farmers and foresters alike are concerned, even as city dwellers flock to the beer gardens in their shirtsleeves. Foresters in the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, are concerned about fire in their pine forests, as the sandy ground the tree favors dries out more quickly than clay soils. The German capital has had no significant rain since March 23.
News by Ivailo Velkov and Shtilyana Chakarova The State should allow shooting of 50 wild bears annually, insists The Bulgarian Game NGO About a thousand bears are now wandering in Bulgarian forests. Their number has increased in the last few years, reports Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
News After 15 years of discussions and negotiations on a global approach to protect the world’s forests, countries meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have adopted a landmark agreement on international forest policy and cooperation following two weeks of intense negotiations.
