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#ForestBiodiversity -A new platform to show how sustainable forest management supports biodiversity preservation (ForestPress)
Brussels, 12 October 2020 - "Listen to EU forest stewards, understand their actions on the ground, learn from their experience, and go beyond the clichés!”
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2019-2020 EOS annual report ready to be ordered
12-10-2020 - As of Monday, October 12 the Annual Report of the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) can be ordered from the EOS Secretariat.
Press review Alberta's fight against mountain pine beetle receives more resources
09-10-2020 - Michael Franklin CTVNewsCalgary.ca CALGARY -- The federal government is offering more than $68 million in funding to help combat one of the most invasive pests in Canada's forests.
News Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award 2021
Call for nominations The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is awarding one extraordinary individual for improving our forests and the lives of people who depend on them!
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STORA ENSO OYJ INVESTOR NEWS
7 September 2020 Stora Enso has decided to invest approximately EUR 79 million in a new production line for cross laminated timber (CLT) at its Ždírec sawmill in the Czech Republic.
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Circular economy is the future of wood fuel production in Cameroon
Abdon Awono - Cameroon Tribune on Aug. 25, 2020./forestsnews.cifor.org Using waste to meet the country’s growing energy demand could reduce impact on forests
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A new article in the journal Nature overestimates the increase of forest harvesting in Europe
luke.fi - 7.7.2020 - Kari T Korhonen According to an article recently published in the esteemed science journal Nature, the annual harvested forest area in Europe has increased by 49 per cent from the comparison years of 2011–2015 to the years 2016–2018.
News Special Report 13/2020: Biodiversity on farmland: CAP contribution has not halted the decline (ForestPress)
05/06/2020 In Europe, the number and variety of animal species on farmland – “farmland biodiversity” – is in marked decline.
News European forest owners: the key to safeguard biodiversity (ForestPress)
Brussels, 20 May 2020 - The European Commission's ambition signalling the global biodiversity priorities was unveiled today with the release of the new EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030.
News EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy could hamper forests' contribution to sustainable development
Swedish Forest Industries - 5/25/2020 Anna Holmberg and Marten Larsson from the Swedish Forest Industries explain why more emphasis should be put on sustainable forest management to maintain and enhance biodiversity.
Press review Epic 7,500-mile cuckoo migration wows scientists
By Frank Gardner BBC News - 26 May 2020 One of the longest migrations recorded by any land bird is about to be completed.
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EU plan for 3bn trees in 10 years to tackle biodiversity crisis
theguardian.com - 19 May 2020 - Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Shaun Walker in Budapest Concern that new strategy, which also includes protecting primeval forests, ‘lacks tools’
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JOINT STATEMENT
15-05-2020 - The EU forest sector's role in ensuring sustainable forest management and conserving biodiversity
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Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging
May 5, 2020 - sciencedaily.com/University of Queensland Logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent, catastrophic Australian bushfires, according to new research.
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OEE and KEFAG Zrt. Postpone this year's 151st OEE Wandering Meeting and the Forester of the Year competition (ForestPress)
April 17, 2020 - The National Forestry Association and the host KEFAG Zrt. Decided to postpone this year's Forester of the Year competition and the 151st OEE Wandering Meeting in view of the national epidemiological situation and its possible consequences.
News The most important task is to protect forests and forest resources (ForestPress)
Photos by ForestPress Interview with Mr. Ahmet Kara, Vice President of the Turkish Chamber of Forest Engineering
News Forest fire in SW China's Sichuan Province (ForestPress)
31-03-2020 - 18 firefighters and a local forest farm worker died while battling a forest fire in SW China's Sichuan Province.
