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Today marks the UN's International Day of Forests (dailymail.co.uk)
21-03-2017 - An annual occasion that honours the world's most precious woodlands.
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Press review Prince William is talking sense – trophy hunting is crucial to conservation
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, feeds a 5-year-old black rhino called Zawadi Getty Richard Emslie, Michael Knight - Friday 18 March 2016 - independent.co.uk A few individuals legally hunted each year is a small price to pay for the transformative benefits trophy hunting brings
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Action on Forest Governance Can Play a Critical Role in Britain’s Post-Brexit International Development Strategy
21 March 2017 - chathamhouse.org The UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) new Economic Development Strategy, published at the end of January, sets out an ambitious but pragmatic agenda for international development, focusing on investment in sustained, job-creating growth which will help countries move beyond the need for aid.
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Supply Change: Tracking Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains, 2017
21-03-2017 - Supply Change draws from already available data to track companies, their commitments, and their progress towards these commitments over time to support stakeholders’ decision-making and, ultimately, to drive transformational change.
News We believe that forests matter for people and planet
21-03-2017 - ngoforestcoalition.org Over one billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods - including 300 million indigenous people.
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Press review Spiders Eat Up to 880 Million Tons of Insects Each Year (livescience.com)
Photo: Davide Hill By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | March 15, 2017 Each year, about 27 million tons of spiders consume somewhere between 440 million and 880 million tons of insects, new research finds.
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Some B.C. loggers get extra day off to catch up on sleep, improve alertness
'You go back 10, 20 years, the safety record in the forestry industry wasn’t very good'
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Senate passes bill ending Obama-era land rule
By Devin Henry - 03/07/17 - thehill.com The Senate on Tuesday voted to end a land management rule finalized in the closing days of the Obama administration.
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The Impacts of the Demand for Woody Biomass for Power and Heat on Climate and Forests (chathamhouse.org)
23 February 2017 - Duncan Brack Although most renewable energy policy frameworks treat biomass as carbon-neutral at the point of combustion, biomass emits more carbon per unit of energy than most fossil fuels.
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High-tech wood: The new hope for school infrastructure? (king5.com)
March 8, 2017 - Mount Vernon, Wash. – There were times Carl Bruner was curious as to how it was ever going to be finished, he said Tuesday morning as a crane lifted the first high-tech wood panel up and into place – the first wall of a four-classroom modular school next to Jefferson Elementary.
Press review Poachers kill one of Africa's last remaining 'big tusker' elephants (theguardian.com)
Photograph: Tsavo Trust Agence France-Presse in Nairobi - Monday 6 March 2017 One of Africa’s oldest and largest elephants has been killed by poachers in Kenya, according to a conservation group that protects a dwindling group of “big tuskers” estimated to be as few as 25.
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Better enforcement of illegal logging law needed, as EUTR turns 4
3 March 2017 - clientearth.org Today marks the four-year anniversary of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), the EU’s law to address illegal logging.
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Pennsylvania deer tests positive for fatal disease
By Myles Snyder - ABC27 News Published: February 28, 2017, HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – A captive white-tailed deer has tested positive for a chronic wasting disease, the state’s second positive case in three months.
News The CIC supports the World Hunting and Nature Expo in 2021
27 February 2017 - The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) has already started the preparation for the 2021 World Hunting and Nature Expo.
News New outbreaks of bird flu in Lithuania, Czech Republic and Rep. of Ireland
27-02-2017 - rt.com Lithuania has reported an outbreak of bird flu virus, H5N8, among swans in central areas of the country.
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Productive communication in forestry
Published on February 24, 2017 - linkedin.com - Stuart Goodall Chief Executive at Confederation of Forest Industries
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New technology may help identify biodiverse forests, inform REDD+ planning and safeguards
21 Feb 2017 - Valerie Kapos - un-redd.org Developing effective REDD+ strategies that respect the Cancun safeguards and help to achieve countries’ development objectives and contribute to meeting their many international commitments requires careful planning.
