A group of farmers in the dry Kajiado District are harvesting sunlight which is abundant in the area to service their 10-acre commercial eucalyptus plantation. "We are playing with natural energy which otherwise goes to waste to make commercial gains," says Maxwell Kinyanjui the project consultant. The district, which neighbours Nairobi, receives very little rain or sometimes non for the whole year, making it a drought prone area.
News Almost all timber offered for sale from private forests in Finland is certified. Timber sold from family owned forests is PEFC-certified. In this autumn’s timber trade certain purchasers will introduce quality related pricing as a new element.
News Early Estimates Indicate Millions of Acres Sustained Damage Worth Potentially Billions of Dollars WASHINGTON, - Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service today reported that Hurricane Katrina damaged or destroyed approximately 19 billion board feet of timber estimated at a value of $5 billion in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
The Oak forests are the most rich ecosystems in the temperate zone Once Oak forest were one of the major forests in Europe THE OAK FORESTS ARE DECLINING AT THE SAME SPEED AS TROPICAL FORESTS!
News The mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia has been present for over 10 years but exploded to cover 7,000,000 hectares by 2004 and is now the largest insect epidemic in North America’s history. Mountain pine beetle continue to spread. The beetles pose a serious threat to western Canada’s economy and to forest communities from Houston in northern B.C. to Manning Park on the American border, and from Whistler in the west down to Cranbrook in the east.
News The Katoomba Group is an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of the ecosystem services provided by forests – such as watershed protection, biodiversity habitat, and carbon storage.
News By Helen Briggs Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests. Levels of methane rose steadily in the atmosphere in the first millennium, according to an analysis of gases trapped in ice beneath Antarctica.
News UBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson , British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada.
News Albert Thurman's tidy home is full of bugs. More than 125,000, to be exact. Through a hobby that has spanned three decades and nearly a dozen countries, Thurman, 58, has amassed a collection of butterflies and insects so vast, diverse and well-preserved that two prominent university museums have agreed to accept the collection into their permanent archives.
News Ha Noi - The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will provide 4.5 million Euros to a project on Vietnamese forest management and marketing of forestry products. An agreement to this affect was signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam and the GTZ in Ha Noi on August 30.
News The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has rescued hundreds of citizens in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast 10 days ago. At the same time, the agency continues to clear miles of roadways, support local police and fire department officials, establish emergency corridors to speed the delivery of relief aid, open access to the Louisiana Heart Hospital, and provide critical help to Red Cross relief workers.
News AS part of the collective effort to assist one another in maintaining each nation’s momentum for economic progress and to ensure that the region continues to be favored as a trading partner of other more developed regions, nine of the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are prepared to take the next step in boosting an industry that will allow the regional economies to take a greater share of the expanding global furniture and home decor market. The industry referred to is the rattan production and fabrication industry.
News Chiltern Dynamics and sister company BM TRADA Certification will pave the way for prEN 14351-1 Product Standard for pedestrian doors and windows without fire resistance by staging a major conference for the door and window industry in the autumn. The event entitled ‘European Openings’ will be held in London on Monday 17 October and repeated in Leeds on Thursday 10 November, with the full support of major industry bodies including TRADA, Glass & Glazing Federation (GGF) and Door & Hardware Federation (DHF).
News PEFC Council: The PEFC Council today announced the international endorsement of the forest certification systems from Luxembourg and the Slovak Republic.
BY NIGEL HAWKES British Association Festival of Science WITHIN the next ten years, fields across Europe and North America could be dense with the dancing fronds of elephant grass, a crop with a serious chance of replacing coal and oil in electricity generation Trials have shown that the plant flourishes on most arable land, requires no fertiliser, suffers no pests or diseases and produces huge volumes of material that can be harvested using existing technology and burned in power stations.
September 8, 2005 Lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta)are an economically important species, being used in construction and for pulp. Vancouver BC (SPX) Sep 02, 2005 Biologists studying a lethal blight of lodgepole pines in northwestern British Columbia present strong evidence in the September issue of BioScience that climate change is to blame for the outbreak.
September 7, 2005 A new, eco-friendly technology that has the potential to revolutionise Scotland’s forest products industry is to be developed thanks to a L181,000 research grant, which has been awarded to a team of engineers at the University of Aberdeen.
11th International Silver Fir Symposium Poiana Brasov,Romania 04-09. 09. 2005 Symposium theme: Challenges for the Management of European Silver fir (Abies Alba Mill) Under Changing Climatic and Economic Conditions
