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Conservation: Wales beaver release survey launched
bbc.com – 23-02-2023 People across Wales are being asked for their views on the potential reintroduction of beavers in the wild.
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Press review Hunting, shooting and taxing: call for grouse estates to pay green levy
A shoot in Scotland to mark the ‘Glorious Twelfth’, or 12 August – the start of the grouse season in the UK. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod The Guardian - 7 Nov 2021 Move would encourage landowners to repair peatlands, restore woods and cut carbon emissions, says conservation group
Press review Reflecting on a decade of ash dieback response in the UK
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk - Posted by: Barnaby Wylder, Posted on: 6 December 2022 - Categories: Biosecurity, Tree health Barnaby Wylder is our Plant Health Forestry Lead in the North West of England.
Press review Mapperton's rewilding beavers on the loose
bbc.com – 16-01-2023 Two beavers are on the run after escaping from an enclosure on a rewilding project.
Press review The happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs in America
Analysis by Andrew Van Dam - January 6, 2023 - washingtonpost.com Chris Pryor, director of forest stewardship at the New England Forestry Foundation, at work in the Hersey Mountain Wilderness in New Hampton, N.H., in 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
Press review Hunters go home empty-handed on first day of Sweden’s biggest wolf cull
Hunters allowed to kill 75 wolves from an already endangered population of 460 amid ‘political pressure’ from hunting lobby
Press review Should the EU have its own forest policy?
By Lauri Hetemäki - 22/12/2022 - EFI blog When the former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson became the President of EFI’s ThinkForest science-policy forum in 2012, he stated that the EU should have its own forest policy.
Press review Bear dens and ancient trees face onslaught of logging in Poland
An ambitious forest management plan in the country’s Carpathian mountains is bringing state foresters ever closer to the dens of brown bears, a protected species
Press review Seasonal migration in the forest sector: what and how much do we know?
By Santiago Alarcón - foresteurope.org - 09th Nov 2022 Seasonal migration is one of the different forms of human migration that exist.
Press review Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
theguardian.com - Arthur Neslen - Tue 30 Aug 2022 Environmentalists say replacing natural forests with wood plantations to realise shift in construction practices is ‘bonkers’
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Inflation Reduction Act puts our oldest climate-fighting technology to work
by Jad Daley, opinion contributor - 08/08/22 6:30 PM ET - thehill.com The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill The Senate’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the most comprehensive climate legislation in U.S. history, puts our nation on track to fight climate change from every angle.
Press review Tips for Tree Care and Storms: Before, During and After (stihlusa.com)
By Mark Chisholm, certified arborist and Team STIHL member. - 29-07-2022 As a third-generation arborist and three-time world tree-climbing champion, I've learned firsthand that trees are much more vulnerable than we assume.
Press review UGA: Burning woody biomass in power plants could reduce carbon
By Ian Bennett, University of Georgia | July 22, 2022 According to a new study by researchers in the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, replacing coal in Georgia’s power plants with woody biomass could not only meet Georgia’s power needs, but reduce carbon emissions.
Press review The reality on old growth
Old growth forest in the Fairy Creek area near Port Renfrew. JONATHAN HAYWARD, THE CANADIAN PRESS cleartheroad.ca – 15-06-2022 - By: Alice Palmer Comment: Old growth forests do not need an elegy — or a hunger strike A commentary by an independent forests researcher based in Richmond, first published in the The Times Colonist (Apr 20, 2022 3:01 AM). The headline on the Fairy Creek protest website blares, “Only 2.7% of B.C.’s original productive old growth forests remain standing.” Readers are implored to volunteer, donate and “join the movement.” As a B.C. resident, I am alarmed that people — maybe even you, if you are reading this article — are being encouraged to glue themselves to highways and stage hunger strikes over what is essentially a tall tale. The supposed “fact” that less than three per cent of B.C.’s productive old growth remains standing, and the implicit suggestion that we’re about to lose that too, are both patently untrue. There is actually much more old growth left, and the majority of it is protected from logging. What is old growth? Old growth forests are defined by the province as being older than 250 years old on the coast or wet area of the Interior, and 140 y
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Glyphosate: no change proposed to hazard classification
ECHA's Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) agrees to keep glyphosate’s current classification as causing serious eye damage and being toxic to aquatic life. Based on a wide-ranging review of scientific evidence, the committee again concludes that classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen is not justified.
Press review Smoke-Ready Communities Research to Prepare for Wildfires
www.epa.gov – 19-05-2022 When smoky conditions from wildfires last for days, weeks or months, communities have begun to seek advice on how to develop formal plans to reduce the public health threat.
Press review Five reasons why timber is so expensive right now
May 10, 2022 – vastern.co.uk Five reasons why timber is so expensive right now
Press review Pressure increasing on fragile forests - Stuart Goodall
I have written before about the huge reliance the UK has on imported timber – after China, it is the second largest net importer of wood products in the world.
