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News The chance discovery of a rare and ancient trapdoor spider in the Walpole Wilderness Area of southern Western Australia is likely to change the way the southern karri and tingle forests are managed. The moggridgea tingle spider dates back more than 140 million years to the time when Australia formed part of the Gondwana super-continent.
News Edited by Luca Tacconi Foreword by Frances Seymour, Director-General, CIFOR Part of the Earthscan Forestry Library • Illegal logging is massively widespread – more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries – and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities?
News The Annual Meeting 2007 of the International Family Forestry Alliance, IFFA, is now scheduled to Wednesday 3 October 2007 in Munich, Germany. The Annual Meeting will be arranged in connection with the general assembly of PEFC, starting the day after. The IFFA Annual Meeting will take place in Wednesday afternoon.
News By BOB HOOD Meleagris gallopavo – wild turkey Stationary turkey decoys are being displaced by more reliable string- or remote-control operated motion decoys. What's the trick to turkey hunting? Tricking the turkeys.
News Spring is on its way in Southern Sweden. Now is the time for planting new saplings to replace storm felled forest. The company "Svenska Skogsplantor" has grown 140 million saplings for satisfying replacement needs after the storms Gudrun and Per. In Southern Sweden big and strong bare root saplings are needed to withstand competition with the abundant growth of brushwood, grass and other plants in treeless and bare areas.
The Forest Owners’ Union of Northern Finland believes that the demands for additional protection will endanger the future of the whole forest sector in Lapland.
News Story by Henrique Almeida (PWN – Pine Wood Nematode – Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) ALCACER DO SAL, Portugal - Fernando Silva shook his head as he watched two lumberjacks cut through what remained of his small pine forest in the south of Portugal.
News BRUSSELS - European Union member states are falling behind a 2015 clean water target, the union's environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Thursday. "Only 43 percent of groundwater and 28 percent of surface water now meet, or are likely to meet, the quality targets by 2015, and this is not acceptable," Dimas told a news conference on the United Nations' "World Water Day."
Story by Julia Hayley MADRID - Some of the world's leading meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans were responsible for global warming.
News The Russian Federation has launched several international forestry initiatives during its first attendance of the FAO's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome on March 13, 2007. (COFO is the top collegiate body of the FAO's forestry programs that meets on a biannual basis. Russia joined the FAO in 2006.)
News Brussels, 20th of March, 2007: In a festive atmosphere the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially opened the newly established European Forestry House by pointing out the great potential of such a house help emphasise the importance of forestry for Europe.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA has the potential to match powerful nations if it can market its cultures and traditions as well as manage its vast natural resources. This could be achieved if the media stopped publishing negative stories about the country.
Dear Colleagues I’m pleased to announce a new Earthscan forestry title, published with CIFOR: ILLEGAL LOGGING: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade Edited by Luca Tacconi Foreword by Frances Seymour, Director-General, CIFOR Illegal logging is massively widespread – more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries – and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities? Written by the world’s foremost experts, this book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation
News Researchers from Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation are hoping a star appearance on Italian television will help efforts to preserve the critically endangered gilbert's potoroo. A crew from an Italian TV network has spent the past few days on Bald Island, near Albany in southern Western Australia, shooting footage of the potoroos, as well as filming department scientists tracking and trapping the animals.
We are pleased to invite You to the opening reception and inauguration of the European Forestry House through the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel
News Rome - For the first time, FAO will display at the upcoming Committee on Forestry (13-16 March), a historical collection of rare forestry books dating back to the eighteenth century that provide a snapshot in time of the state of forest research as it first developed in Central Europe and evolved through the beginning of the twentieth century.
Montreal – Sustainability for Success is the theme of the 2007 ForestLeadership Conference, geared towards decision makers and practitioners in the North American forest and paper sector. The event will feature some twenty prominent speakers and will be held in the same venue as, and just prior to, the 20th PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Conference.
News By MARTA FALCONI ROME — The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
