News Root rot causes loss and damage to an amount of 55 million euro every year. A new instrument permits forest owners to determine themselves which trees have rot and which of them are sound.
Ministerial Conference Preparations (ForestPress) The ENA FLEG Ministerial Conference will soon take place on November 22-25, in St. Petersburg, Russia,at the Hotel Pribaltiyskaya http://www.pribaltiyskayahotel.ru/comm.html. Participation: As of November 11, 45 Governments have confirmed participation in the conference and twelve ministers and five deputy ministers are scheduled to attend.
News An environmental group is proposing to buy the rights to the Arcadia forest near Collie, in Western Australia's south-west, in a bid to stop it being logged. The Forest Products Commission is planning to log the forest as part of next year's harvest plan.
News If you think you can smell a chip shop next time a Forestry Commission van passes, it might have nothing to do with a logger's lunch. Instead, it might be because the van is running on the cooking oil that fried your last meal of fish and chips.
Bribery case linked to illegal logging scandal Former deputy forestry chief Prawat Thanadkha and a timber trader were sentenced to five years and two years in jail respectively for their parts in the five million baht bribery case connected to the Salween illegal logging scandal in Tak from 1997 to 1998.
News The concept of a “Technology Platform” was established by the European Commission to promote an integrated research approach based on private-public partnerships. The Platform brings together, amongst others, producers, industry, research institutions and European level regulatory authorities, to define a common long-term research agenda. This agenda is based on a common Research & Development (R&D) vision for that sector, signposting how it will move forward.
Martial arts and sushi are two well-loved imports from Japan, but there's a third that people in Britain have been flocking to take part in and didn't even realise it - momijigari. Momijigari is the traditional Japanese pastime of watching the changing colours of trees in autumn. We might not have a word for it but thousands of people take to the woods every year to see the riot of colours that nature has to display.
News Karelian nature protection organization "SPOK" sent to Moscow more than 250 republican dweller signatures to the letter for President Putin V.V. The letter is dealing with new Forest code problems, which threatens to all Russian forest management and could restrict citizen rites.
News Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being 9-12 November 2005, Hotel Mision de Los Angeles, Oaxaca, Mexico. More than 700 leading natural and social scientists from 60 countries will attend the first open science conference, convened Paris-based DIVERSITAS to integrate knowledge about the relationship between humans and the world’s biological resources.
News Byline: Jeff Barnard Aiming to boost public confidence, agency eyes GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Private timber companies have been getting "green" certifications for the past decade to boost sales among consumers who want to be assured that forests are not harmed by producing the lumber they buy.
News Country-Led Initiative in support of UNFF November 16-18, 2005, Berlin, Germany The objective of the meeting is to contribute to the preparations for UNFF 6 in order to help it achieve a consensus.
News By Mike Shanahan Different ways of logging tropical forests will greatly change their ability to store carbon, says the study. The ability of tropical forests to store large amounts of carbon and so help curb future climate change depends heavily on the tree species growing in them, say scientists. This, in turn, is determined by logging and reforestation practices as well as environmental factors such as drought.
News TURIN - Wildlife fans cheered the return of the first wolves to northern Italy's snowy slopes a few years ago after an absence of some 80 years. Survival remains an uphill struggle for the species, however. The 2006 Winter Olympics in the Italian Alps will cut right through the wolves' hunting grounds.
News The National Forests and Grasslands provide millions of acres of opportunity for recreational hunting. While safety should always be top priority, following a few special tips will help ensure a safe and successful outing in the great American outdoors, especially if you are hunting wild turkeys.
News The Philippine Eagle Foundation bares that the municipality of Mati, Davao Oriental is ready to declare 7,000 hectares of their forest land as critical habitat for Philippine Eagles in support of our efforts to preserve what is among the last remaining large forest blocks in the country, the Eastern Mindanao Corridor (EMC).
By Lindsay Beck BEIJING - Global investment in renewable energy hit a record $30 billion last year, accounting for 20-25 percent of all investment in the power industry, and with solar power the fastest-growing energy technology, a Worldwatch Institute report released on Sunday said. The Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based organization working for environmental sustainability, said the renewables sector was growing as a result of government support and increasing private sector investment.
News The project of the forest owners' association Mellanskog to provide training in forest management to female forest owners is a success. Female forest owners have taken so much interest in the project that after one year's work Mellanskog has decided to go on with the training.
Proper logging techniques should be applied in the Amazon Rome - Selective logging is not necessarily destructive and can be done with low impact on the remaining forests, if the proper techniques are applied, FAO said today, in response to a recent study on logging impacts in the Amazon.
