JAKARTA – Indonesians on Borneo and Sumatra islands braved acrid, polluting smoke haze and more disruption to air travel Friday as they prepared for a religious holiday. The haze, caused by fires set to clear land for farming, shut provincial airports in Central Kalimantan's Palangkaraya and Sumatra's Jambi.
News MOSCOW - A Russian region has ordered an inquiry into a report that hunt organisers, keen to make the King of Spain's chances of killing a bear easier, provided a tame one drunk on vodka, a regional spokesman said on Thursday. "The governor has ordered a working group set up...to check the facts published in local press about the killing of the bear," said a spokesman for Vyacheslav Pozgalev, governor of the northwestern Vologda region.
Elephant and orangutan reserves are under threat from forest fires in Indonesia that have sent a pall of smoke across much of south-east Asia, prompting health warnings and forcing flight cancellations. The fires, covering millions of acres, have been burning for weeks, triggering fears of a repeat of the months of choking haze in 1997 that cost the region billions in economic losses.
Traditions The history of the Faculty of Forestry at UBC is unique. Professors, staff, and fellow Forestry alumni are very proud of the achievements and contributions, thay have all made over the years.
News AMSTERDAM - Developing markets in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), aimed at fighting global warming, need more long-term regulatory stability if they are to flourish, investors said on Monday.
News Prices currently at 'rock bottom' in U.S TORONTO -- The potential loss of thousands of jobs in Canada's lumber industry has nothing to do with the new deal on softwood with the U.S., Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. "No, quite the opposite," Harper said when asked whether it was costing Canadian jobs.
News Now we know who will be responsible for forestry matters in the new Swedish non-Socialist government. It is Ms Maud Olofsson, who is also leader of the Centre Party. She is 51 years old and she lives in Högfors in Northern Sweden. She is well familiar with the situation concerning family forestry because she her husband own a farm with 250 hectares of forest.
News NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court on Monday banned the country's 250 zoos from breeding programmes for their animals following allegations by animal rights activists that indiscriminate breeding was leading to overcrowding. "We direct (that) no zoo shall permit any further breeding of animals," Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal said.
The Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development (Seed) Initiative calls for proposals from locally driven, partnerships that promote economic growth, social development, and environmental stewardship for the second round of its biennial award. Applications for the award are due to the Seed Secretariat no later than October 15, 2006.
Wil de Jong, Lye Tuck-Po and Ken-ichi Abe (eds). The 13 chapters in this book from Southeast Asia, the Amazon basin, and Sub-Saharan Africa analyze what happens to the people who migrate to tropical forests, inside the forest or out of the forest, as well as to the people who live in tropical forests and who have to put up with new migrants. Three chapters in the book provide regional overviews for Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Case study chapters focus on historical links to contemporary issues, such as the impact of the slave trade, or cocoa exploitation in Ghana, on Sub-Saharan African forests and communities. Two Asia chapters assess pre-colonial and colonial territorial politics and the role of migrants and resources exploitation therein. Three chapters tell in detail the fate of modern forest migrants and residents in Vietnam's Central Highlands, Indonesia's Eastern Kalimantan and Bugees settlers who relocated in large numbers to the harsh peat-land environments of Sumatra since the 1970s. The chapters on Latin America show the many variations of migration related to modern and historical rubber and Brazil nut exploitation, and in response to Andean land scarcity
News The Secretariat of the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP), which was launched at the 14th Session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in May 2006 in New York, opened for business on September 25, 2006.
News By Andrea Thompson Desert forest is located in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman Trees in a rare cloud forest in the desert regions of Oman water themselves with seasonal fog, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists. The researchers studied this unusual watering process in a forest located in the Dhofar Mountains in the south of the Middle Eastern country.
'YEAR OF THE ASH' Ms Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for forestry, launched National Tree Day at Kentstown Primary School, Co Meath this morning. Tree Day, which takes place this year on Thursday, 12 October, is dedicated by many schools throughout the country to studying trees, with the aim of promoting a wider understanding of trees and woodland especially amongst children.
Dear All, We would like to invite you to participate in this month's UN Forum on Forests on-line discussion forum on links between forest ownership and sustainable forest management. The question posed is: "How do ownership structures affect sustainable forest management: what strategies can be considered to secure forest tenure?” You can access the e-forum via our website at or directly at the WebForum.
News Turkey ratified the EFI Convention on 3 October, thus being the 12th ratifying country of the Convention. The Convention enters into force in Turkey 60 days after the ratification date.
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been awarded this year's "Spirit of Nature" price for wood based architecture. In his latest works he has successfully utilized wood as building material. Among other things he has used traditional building frameworks made of logs.
Please be informed that the CDM Executive Board agreed to launch a call for experts for its Afforestation/Reforestation Working Group (A/R WG). Detailed information on these calls is available through the main page of the UNFCCC CDM website <http://cdm.unfccc.int/>.
By Dean Fosdick NEW MARKET, Va. — An old saw goes that firewood warms you twice: once when you split and stack it, and again when you sit by the stove on a blustery winter night. Now you can add a third way: How about the slow burn you feel when you’re handed the bill for that cordwood just dumped on your driveway?
