Press review Brazilian police foil million-dollar fraud to export precious Amazon wood to China
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro - Sunday 17 December 2017 - theguardian.com Prosectors say police saved Amapá $30m worth of environmental damage
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News CEPF congratulates Elisabeth Köstinger on her new position as Minister in Austria (cepf-eu.org)
18.12.2017 - The Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) congratulates Ms Köstinger on her new prominent political position as Austrian Federal Minister for Sustainability, Agriculture and Tourism.
Press review The world’s largest and oldest organism is super stressed out
(US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fish Lake) December 09, 2017 - POPULUS TREMULOIDES - Ephrat Livni - qz.com The largest and oldest living organism on Earth is the Pando clone, a quaking aspen colony of over 47,000 trees in Utah that stretches over 106-acres, weighs 13 million pounds, and is 80,000 years old.
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Asia's tallest wooden tower burns to ground
10 Dec, 2017 - rt.com A huge blaze has engulfed and destroyed a 16-story wooden tower, known as the tallest of its kind in Asia, after a fire raged through a monastery in Sichuan Province, southwest China.
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VPA Update: A year on from FLEGT licensing (ForestPress)
A year after the first FLEGT licences from Indonesia entered the EU market (15 November 2016), it is expected that Ghana will soon become the second country to export FLEGT-licensed timber to the EU (see the Ghana update below), and the first in Africa.
Press review Golden jackal expansion in Europe: First telemetry evidence of a natal dispersal
József Lanszkia, 1, Gergely Schallyb, Miklós Heltaib, Nathan Ranc - sciencedirect.com 08-12-2017 The Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) is currently undergoing a rapid range expansion.
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Belowground fungal interactions with trees help explain non-native plant invasions
Mycorrhizal fungi are a type of fungi that help trees feed on minerals in the soil and, in turn, feed off sugars in tree roots. New research by a US Forest Service scientist and partners suggests that the type of mycorrhizal fungi dominant December 1, 2017 - phys.org New research published by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and Purdue University suggests that tiny soil fungi that help and are helped by trees may influence a forest's vulnerability to invasion by non-native plants.
News Nearly 80-foot Christmas tree expected to arrive today at the U.S. Capitol
By Dana Hedgpeth November 27 A nearly 80-foot tall Christmas tree is set to arrive Monday at the grounds of the U.S. Capitol from Montana.
Press review Klamath getting $33K in additional timber funds
01-12-2017 - By STEPHEN FLOYD H&N Staff Reporter - heraldandnews.com Klamath County expects to receive roughly $32,608 from a $1.4 million federal payout to O&C Lands Act counties.
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New York woman killed by hunter while walking dogs
By Elizabeth Joseph and Steve Almasy, CNN - November 25, 2017 A woman walking her dogs near her western New York home was fatally shot Wednesday by a man who told police he mistook her for a deer.
News FAO shepherds region-wide cooperation on forest invasive species (ForestPress)
Budapest, 18 October 2017- When the health, biodiversity, or even long-term survival of forests is at risk, the culprit is not always logging, road-building or urban sprawl.
Press room Inaugural network meeting of the Forest Invasive Species Network for Europe and Central Asia (REUFIS)
Budapest, Hungary - 17-19 October 2017 Final Draft - PROGRAMME Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
News Hungry bear' crisis grips far east Russian region
Photo: Patrick Herzog AFP - October 16, 2017 Russian forestry officials said 86 bears had to be shot dead because they were hostile
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New Generation of Forestry Plantations in the UK
A public lecture by Andrew Heald Technical Director for Confor: Promoting Forests and Wood, Confederation of Forest Industries (UK)
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Mobile slaughterhouse for wild game debuts in Shikoku as boar, deer numbers soar
Kyodo - Sep 18, 2017 - japantimes.co.jp KOCHI – A town in Shikoku has developed a meat-processing truck designed to quickly slaughter wild boar and deer killed by hunters, in an effort to utilize game that previously went to waste.
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Meet the latest recruit to the UK flood defence team: the beaver (theguardian.com)
Patrick Barkham - Saturday 16 September 2017 Villagers in the Forest of Dean back plans to release a beaver family to protect their homes by damming waterways Beavers could be put to work building dams to stop a village from flooding in the Forest of Dean, in what would be the first such scheme on government land.
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Logging opponents to bid against timber companies for project south of Bozeman
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer Sep 6, 2017 - bozemandailychronicle.com Montana officials want to cut down some trees on state land south of Bozeman, but a group of locals who oppose the project want to pay the state to leave it untouched.
News Lyme disease (forestry.gov.uk)
01-09-2017 - Information for environment sector organisations on raising awareness amongst staff and visitors
