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News European researchers have recently provided, for the first time, evidence of a significant decline in wild bee diversity in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands over the past 25 years. The scientists also observed that the loss of this pollinator’s diversity is consistent with the loss of bee-pollinated plants.
News As a station of the procedure started in Vienna in December 2004, the scientific body of GOFOR met in Budapest on March 2, 2007. The objective of the meeting was to introduce and discuss the actual situation of the International Convention on the Carpathians and the Balkans, as part of multilateral international forest policies, as well as to introduce and discuss the results of the GOFOR EU research program on national forest analysis.
BEIJING - Six schoolboys playing with lighters started a fire that engulfed a forest in southwest China and took 10,000 firefighters two days to put out, state media reported on Friday. The fire was started on Thursday morning and spread over 233 hectares (575 acres) in Yunnan Province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing government sources.
Editorial The term “national forest programme” (NFP) designates the wide range of approaches to the process of planning, programming and implementing forest activities in a country, to be applied at national and subnational levels, based on a common set of guiding principles.
Press review National forest programmes Unasylva No. 225 Vol. 57, 2006/3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2006
News One of the most significant bands of the popular music era, Blondie, has announced a special date for this summer, when they will play Thetford Forest, Suffolk, as part of the Forestry Commission’s 2007 Forest Tour. Blondie’s show will be supporting The Commission’s valuable social and environmental programmes.
News LJUBLJANA - Slovenian Environment Minister Janez Podobnik has approved an unchanged hunting quota of 100 brown bears in 2007, but a leading conservation body said the region's bear population could not sustain such a loss. "(We) expect that the quota will ensure favourable conditions for the (brown bear) population," the ministry said in a statement on Friday. The quota was based on an estimate that there are 500 to 700 brown bears in Slovenia and on the government view that the number of bears would become excessive unless kept in check.
News Statistics compiled by the Swedish pellet industry indicate that pellet sales reached record levels in 2006. Pellet consumption for heating detached houses increased by almost 50 %. That means that owners of such houses now consume more pellets than industry.
News By JEFF BARNARD GRANTS PASS, Ore. – In 2006, 89,000 fires burned across 9.5 million acres across the U.S. The Forest Service spent $1.5 billion fighting those fires – about $100 million over budget. Using fire scars on nearly 5,000 tree stumps dating back 450 years, scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming.
Communicating research results is rapidly rising on the science priority list. This is why the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force for Communicating Forest Science has developed a survey with the aim to discover and compare the communication and collaboration behaviour and activities of scientists working in forestry research worldwide.
Preparations are under way for the XIII World Forestry Congress, to be held from 18 to 25 October 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is expected that this event will attract about 4 000 participants from more than 100 countries. The World Forestry Congress is held every six years and is co-sponsored by FAO and the host country.
News Ulmus procera Salis Millions of conifers and other non-native trees are to be felled in the next 20 years to regenerate indigenous trees in England's woodland. Oak, ash and beech would be encouraged to naturally seed and regenerate, said Forestry Minister Jim Knight, and Lord Clark, of the Forestry Commission.
Dear All, We would like to invite you to participate in this month's UNFF on-line discussion on the benefits and challenges associated with community-based forest management.
News A project has been initiated in Finland for investigating the question if transportation of wood based energy by waterways would be a working and financially advantageous alternative. One aspect of the project is to find out if waterway transport could be a better alternative than truck transport.
News On February 27, 2007, Russia's Natural Resources Minister Trutnev chaired the first meeting of the Forestry Board (Lesnaya Kollegia) at the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task – to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction. The 5-year-old rhino, Andalas, traveled from the Los Angeles Zoo in the United States to Jakarta's international airport on a two-day journey. The rhino was fed fresh green leaves upon arrival in the tropical island nation.
News BRUSSELS – The European Union said Wednesday it has given Poland a week to stop work on a highway running through a unique protected habitat in a test case of how the new EU member states deal with environmental issues. "We don't accept irreversible damage," EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told reporters. If the Polish government does not back down in a week, Dimas said he will seek an injunction from the EU's highest court to suspend the highway project.
News News from the Campaign Tree-nation.com is a new community website, run by an international team, based in Barcelona, Spain. Together with you, they will create a park by planting 8 million trees in the shape of a giant heart in the Saharan desert, to fight Poverty, Global Warming and Desertification.
