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GettyImages By Aaron Broverman | Yahoo Finance Canada – Mon, 21 Nov, 2016 The best jobs in Canada are forestry or mining manager according to Canadian Business Magazine.
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Alaska Airlines makes first commercial flight using fuel made from trees, forest residuals
by KOMO Staff and Lee Stoll - komonews.com - November 15th 2016 SEA-TAC AIRPORT, Wash - Alaska Airlines made history on Monday with the first commercial flight that used renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals.
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New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California (usda.gov)
VALLEJO, Calif., Nov. 18, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016.
News No Ordinary Quest: Students Game for Deeper Learning (ubc.ca)
13-11-2016 - A story celebrating teaching excellence at UBC — innovative, evidence-based and committed to transforming the student learning experience.
News Moving forest certification beyond its boundaries: PEFC Stakeholder Dialogue agenda takes shape
Nov 12 2016 - Join us in Bali this November as we focus in on forest certification and sustainable supply chains and how these can better deliver impacts within sustainable landscapes and sustainable livelihoods.
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Two ways to settle the latest Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute
Ben Nelms For The Globe and Mail Canadian softwood lumber is pictured at the Port of Vancouver Lynnterm terminal in North Vancouver in this file photo. HARRY NELSON and NGAIO HOTTE - Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2016 - The standstill agreement on softwood lumber trade expired recently, leaving Canadians holding their breath for the U.S. Lumber Coalition to launch legal proceedings.
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The Hungarian refugees who helped shape Canada’s forests
More than 200 students, faculty and family members fled Hungary 60 years ago November 4, 2016 - John Kurucz / Vancouver Courier Four waves of graduates from Hungary finished their studies at UBC between 1958 and 1961.
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Men killed in helicopter crash near Whangarei were contractors for timber company
New Zealand - Mon, Oct 31 - tvnz.co.nz Two people killed in a helicopter crash near Whangarei this afternoon were contracting for a timber harvesting company.
Press review The man who thinks trees talk to each other (theguardian.com)
29-10-2016 - Beech trees are bullies and willows are loners, says forester Peter Wohlleben, author of a new book claiming that trees have personalities and communicate via a below-ground ‘woodwide web’
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LIFEGENMON Session at 125th Anniversary IUFRO Congress (ForestPress)
29-10-2016 - We are pleased to inform you that our proposal for a session at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress has been accepted!
Traditions The Freedom Fight: a chronicle of Hungary’s 1956 Revolution
Thursday, October 22, 2015 — Nick Robertson Hungarian history includes many eras of oppression by occupying foreign forces, and many instances of the Magyar people uniting to battle against them.
News Minister Fazekas: the next fifty years must be installed on 600 000 hectares of new forest (MTI)
Budapest, 20 October 2016 - Two million hectares of forested area of Hungary.
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Forest Communications across Continents (ForestPress)
20-10-2016 - Joint Forest Communicators Workshop attendees at Mount St. Helens, Washington State, USA. 2016. Photo: Matt Burks, U.S. Forest Service Report from the Joint IUFRO and UNECE-FAO FCN Forest Communicators Workshop held in Portland, Oregon, USA, 30 August to 1 September 2016
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Adopted by the Hungarian government, the National Forest Strategy (ForestPress)
October 18 2016 - The Official Gazette published the long-term vision sets the direction for one-fifth of the territory of a management by 2030.
Press review Pull-out threat sobers up Cites- Namibia, Zimbabwe and SA score victory
10th October 2016 - southernafrican.news - By Mduduzi Mathuthu JOHANNESBURG-NAMIBIA, Zimbabwe and South Africa – backed by Zambia – scored a partial victory at the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) meeting in Johannesburg this week when they blocked attempts to upgrade elephants to an “Appendix I” listing – which bans all trade.
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Bratislava: joint statement
12 - 10 - 2016 - European forest owners, managers and forest-based industries released a joint statement today, outlining key elements to be included in the review of the FOREST EUROPE process to ensure Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), at the first meeting of the working group on the future direction of the FOREST EUROPE in Bratislava.
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IUCN informs key decisions at the CITES conference on wildlife trade
07 Oct 2016 - This article was also published in The Huffington - Post iucn.org At the recently concluded 17th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of the Parties (CoP17) – the largest meeting of its kind ever held – IUCN helped inform a number of landmark decisions on regulating sustainable and legal trade, writes Richard Jenkins, Deputy Director of IUCN’s Global Species Programme, from Johannesburg
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CITES Opening Day: Ceremonies, Rhetoric and Drama
September 26, 2016 - By Judith Needham, JD, LLM, MPH nhub.news JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , September 25, 2016 (ENS) – “It is a great pleasure to be here in the City of Johannesburg – the vibrant heart of South Africa.”
