News Ministers of the Nordic countries want to improve forests and thereby to strengthen local communities The Nordic ministers responsible for forestry met on 29th – 30th August with politicians and experts in N?debo in Denmark. The subject of the meeting was the value of forests for local communities.
News Reports by Charles Clover, Environment Editor Burning peat bogs set alight by rainforest clearance in Indonesia are releasing up to a seventh of the world's total fossil fuel emissions in a single year, the geographers' conference heard. Tropical peatlands are one of the largest stores of carbon on the Earth's surface and setting them alight is contributing massively to global warming, said Dr Susan Page, senior lecturer in geography at Leicester University.
B.C.’s deeply indented, island-dotted coastline covers more than 25,000 kilometres (15,500 miles) from Washington State north to the Alaska panhandle. Much of the Coast Forest Region is remote wilderness yet most of B.C.’s 4 million residents live in the southwest corner of the province, which includes the cities of Vancouver and Victoria. The forest industry built B.C.’s coastal economy, and remains the number-one industry today.
Forestlands cover over 70% of Alabama (22.9 million acres) and is second in size only to Georgia. There is tremendous diversity in Alabama's forests, from upland oak stands in the mountains of the northeast to coastal hardwood swamps along the Mobile bay.
News Washington – The USDA. Forest Service is taking another step to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina by temporarily rescinding the fee requirement for campgrounds and the 14-day stay limit for camping on some National Forest System lands in the Southern Region. The normal fee range is $4.00 to $25.00 depending on the location.
News MOSCOW - More than 310,000 hectares of forests have burnt down in wildfires in Russia since spring, a source in the Ministry of Natural Resources told Itar-Tass on Friday.
News ST. LOUIS, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced USDA accomplishments and initiatives during a keynote address at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation that will help to set the course for a new era of conservation in the 21st century. "Cooperative conservation is a priority for President Bush and USDA is committed to achieving the hard-driving goals that he has set," Johanns said at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation.
News ANCHORAGE- Successive hot summers, vast swaths of insect-weakened trees and lightning strikes have combined to torch about 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of forest in Alaska this summer, nearly tying the state's third-largest fire season on record, federal and state officials said on Tuesday.
News Yaoundé – Lukong Pius Nyuylime The strategy was officially presented to the public in August in Yaounde Five silent threats to the sustainable management of the forest have been identified. These are: absence of national control strategy for exploitation of forest and wildlife, approximate understanding of laws and regulations, inadequate organization, competence and lack of equipment; limited involvement of the civil society and business operators in the implementation of the forestry law and poor collaboration with partner administrations.
News The state managed real estate owners Statskog in Norway and Sveaskog in Sweden have jointly founded the limited company Inatur Nordic as. The new company will further improve and develop the Norwegian website inatur.no. Furthermore, the company will market and sell hunting and fishing trips, outdoor activities and nature travelling in both countries.
News Scientists have finally identified a small insect that has been sucking the life out of the nation's pine forests. The sap sucking Essigella californica aphid has been defoliating up to 30 per cent of the forest canopy, costing the industry about $20 million a year in lost production.
After many years of preparation the work of Hungarian scientists in forestry and wood sciences has been presented in the foreign language edition of Acta Silvatica et Lignaria Hungarica. Rezső Solymos, (Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) writes about this in the introduction to the first publication of the periodical.
National Association of Forest Industries – Recent comments and concerns over the increase in Australia’s plantation estates fail to recognise the importance of Australia’s plantation sector. With an annual trade deficit of $2 billion per annum, Australia’s dependence on plantation timber is increasing rapidly.
News Byline: Jerry Hirsch and Henry Chu RONDONOPOLIS, Brazil — This Amazon nation's drive to become the world's breadbasket hinges on farmers such as Carlos Augustin, who grows cotton and soy in an area that would cover more than half of the San Fernando Valley.
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth today announced the appointment of Corbin Newman as director of forest management. Newman, currently the National Fire Plan coordinator for the Forest Service, replaces Chuck Myers who was recently named regional forester for the agency's Southern Region.
News Luisa Massarani [FORTALEZA] A Brazilian researcher has used the results of a survey of scientific publications to argue that Brazil must produce and keep more scientists in its Amazon region. Adalberto Val told the 57th annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, held last week in Fortaleza, that only 22 per cent of research papers about the Brazilian Amazon published in the first four months of 2004 were by local researchers.
News The total area of forests in the Czech Republic has been constantly expanding and is now much larger than before 1989, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) reported. Since 1966 the forest area has increased by 50,000 hectares. Last year it amounted to 2,645 million hectares.
Dear Sir/Madam: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is currently in its Third Phase (April 2004-March 2007) of strategic research. It is currently seeking applicants for researcher for Forest Conservation project (FC). Further details on the position and how to apply can be found in the Recruitment Announcement.
