News A band of scrooges have struck Heidelberg's city forest, making off with 40 Christmas trees. The Grinch came early to Heidelberg this year. An unidentified band of Scrooges absconded with no fewer than 40 Christmas trees on Friday from Heidelberg's city forest. Police said the thieves cut down and made off with the innocent conifers on Friday morning in a vehicle that must have pulled a sizeable trailor in tow.
News In the next ten years 80 000 woodland estates will have new owners. At the present moment mainly old people are forest owners. Their average age is 60 years. Mr Michael Hornborg, President of the Finnish Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), says that a change of generations is urgent if there are to be any active forest owners and workers in the future.
News The WWF/IUCN Forest Conservation Newsletter, There’s nothing quite like plantations for stirring up a heated debate in forestry circles. Some see forest plantations as the answer not only to the growing demand for timber and wood fibre, but also to the problem of natural forest loss. Plantations, they say, lessen the need to log natural forests and thus contribute to the conservation of forest biodiversity.
News STRASBOURG - The European wolf remains on the ‘strictly protected’ species list of a key wildlife convention, after signatories rejected a Swiss proposal Monday to declassify the animal during a meeting in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.
News Washington State has been given this year's honor of providing the Christmas Tree that will stand in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. The tree tree is a majestic, 65-foot tall Pacific Silver Fir and will be decorated with 10,000 lights and 3,000 ornaments handmade by schoolchildren from across Washington State. The highlight of the Capitol's Christmas season will be a simple, but dramatic lighting ceremony, in which the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will light the spectacular tree, continuing a tradition begun in 1964.
News Danube – Dunji Milanovac (Photo by ForestPress) Ambitious project for conservation and restoration of Europe’s humid zones The international project Lower Danube Green Corridor (LDGC) is incorporated in the Danube-Carpathian Program of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) covering six countries in the lower reaches of the great river – Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. It seeks the restoration of biodiversity as well as guarantees for the sustainable development of this section of the Danube.
News EU policy must change to recognise forests’ carbon offset potential and sustainable energy contribution, said stakeholders at a conference organised by the Finnish forest industries federation in Brussels on Tuesday.
News Some time ago we told about the second working meeting on oak conservancy and regeneration, which took place in Pereslavl Zalesski in August 2006. The participants agreed that protection of transplants, giving them a legal status and including them into the regional programs and territory infrastructure should become one of the priorities of the project in question.
News FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA /REPUBLIKA SRPSKA Study Tour and Action Plan on Corporate Governance within the Forest Sector Introduction The forestry sector of Bosnia and Hercegovina is facing new challenges in moving to a free market economy
News They came out of nowhere. Wild boars stormed the elegant Bavarian town of Veitshöchheim on a peaceful Saturday morning and left mangled cars, smashed fences and a wrecked boutique in their wake. Police had to open fire to restore order. An angry horde of wild boars invaded a German town at the weekend, knocking over cyclists, biting pedestrians, causing traffic accidents and wrecking a boutique, police said.
News New Delhi, An environmental group has filed a complaint in the Supreme Court to stop illegal extraction of resin from pine trees in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayan Chipko Foundation Sunday said they have filed the application in the apex court, highlighting the "corruption and environmental danger due to the tapping of resin" from pine trees in Uttaranchal.
News Metropolitana, a company owned by the Ljubjana Archdiocese has succeeded in its bid to take over Gozdno gospodarstvo Bled, the company that manages forests around the lakeside resort town of Bled. After Metropolitana acquired a 76.18% share in Gozdno gospodarstvo Bled on the basis of a public bid open until mid-October, it has now also purchased a 20% share from the state-run Pension Fund Management (KAD) and Restitution Fund (SOD).
Calculations of carbon circulation made by Mr Göran ?gren and Ms Riitta Hyvönen, researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, demonstrate that bio energy from forests and cultivated fields are practically carbon dioxide neutral and that they do not disturb natural circulation.
A German forest owner who wanted to check up on his fir trees was shocked to find a wasteland of bark and twigs. Police are hunting the thieves who carted off an entire 2,500 square meter forest. Wood thieves in western Germany have sawn down a 2,500 square meter area of fir trees.
News Countering hypotheses that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists at UC (University of California, Irvine) have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where charred trees expose more snow, which reflects sunlight into space. This finding suggests that taking steps to prevent boreal forest fires to limit the release of carbon dioxide and methane – the most influential greenhouse gases – may unintentionally warm the climate in northern regions.
News Draft new Russian forest code is translated into English by World Bank.
News (Photos by ForestPress) A Gipsy Moth Workshop is Serbia Chemtura held its 2nd International Gipsy Moth Conference in Donji Milanovac (Serbia) along the banks of river Danube, near the Iron Gate, 15th through 18th November 2006. Hotel Lepenski Vir, situated against a picturesque setting, put up the conference as well as its attendants from seven countries, the latter representing sylvicultural organizations and National Parks of their respective homelands.
News (Photos by ForestPress) A Gipsy Moth Workshop is Serbia Chemtura held its 2nd International Gipsy Moth Conference in Donji Milanovac (Serbia) along the banks of river Danube, near the Iron Gate, 15th through 18th November 2006. Hotel Lepenski Vir, situated against a picturesque setting, put up the conference as well as its attendants from seven countries, the latter representing sylvicultural organizations and National Parks of their respective homelands.
