News Pre-Congress highlights – Durban 2015
06-09-2015 - Durban welcomed delegates arriving this weekend for the XIV World Forestry Congress with a number of pre-Congress events heralding a busy week ahead.
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Traditions First in Forestry (firstinforestry.org)
01-09-2015 – On This Day in 1898 the Biltmore Forest School opened to students, first forestry school in US Carl Schenck and The Biltmore Forest School
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Hungary has the longest hiking line in Europe (dailynewshungary.com)
31-08-2015 - According to travelo.hu, the renew of the National Blue Circle, which is the most popular tourist route of Hungary, is nearing the end, the last elements of the HUF 2.7 billion project will be handed over in September – communications associate of the Hungarian Hiker Association said at a press conference in Pecs on Monday.
News FAO Forestry publications of the World Congress (Forest Press)
28 August 2018 - An interesting and useful compilation published by the FAO for the upcoming World Forestry Congress.
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Feeling Hungary? Go Meat Hunting (Fieldsports Britain)
26-08-2015 - By the end of this episode of Fieldsports Britain, you will have been out after boar and mouflon with Cai Ap Bryn in Hungary, you will have shot a zebra with Michaelka, you will have seen grouse-shooting, alligator fishing and found out about the shotgun cartridge specially designed for shooting down drones.
Traditions Forest Service Celebrates 150th Birthday of Founder (ForestPress)
Posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service, on August 11, 2015 The life in which U.S. Forest Service founder Gifford Pinchot (link is external) was born into wasn’t much different than what millions of Downton Abbey fans have come to know through that popular PBS period drama: huge homes, servants and vast expanses of lands were the accoutrements of many in Pinchot’s class.
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Forest products industry hiring 60,000 new employees in the next 5 years (forestbusinessnetwork.com)
Colin Dacre — August 24, 2015 Today the Globe and Mail pegged the Forest Products Industry as one of the promising sectors in the country for young Canadians looking for a prosperous career.
News Walking safari guide killed by lion in Zimbabwe park (AP)
By FARAI MUTSAKA 25-08-2015 - HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same national park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion who was controversially killed by an American bow hunter in July.
News Troops mobilized to help fight western wildfires (Reuters)
By Laura Zuckerman - Aug 17, 2015 SALMON, Idaho - The U.S. Army began deploying 200 soldiers on Monday to reinforce civilian firefighters stretched thin by scores of large wildfires roaring across several Western states, marking the first such mobilization of active-duty military personnel in nine years.
Sports The Hungarian team featured in the most effective – 22. EFOL (ForestPress)
17 August 2015 - It ended the 22th European Forest Orienteering Championship; in Sweden next year will be held the championship
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Wild boar release in Maesteg captured on CCTV (bbc.com)
14-08-2015 - CCTV footage shows how two "sophisticated" thieves freed more than 40 wild boar from a farm in Bridgend county.
Sports Has started the European Forestry Orienteering Championships in the Mecsek (ForestPress)
12 August 2015 - The first troops had arrived in Orfű, 22th European Forest Orienteering Championships (EFOL) central location.
News American invitation for Csaba Mátyás (ForestPress)
9 August 2015 - The Ecological Society of America held jubilee congress (100 years old) from 10 to 14 August this year.
News Forest Service gets to the heart of wildland firefighters (fs.fed.us)
Posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service, on October 6, 2014 - It takes a certain type of person to fight wildfires. It’s not what they look like. Or sound like. It’s not their heritage or their culture. It’s their heart.
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Night-flying firefighting helicopter crashes into Montana lake (fireaviation.com)
Posted on August 6, 2015 by Bill Gabbert Tuesday night, August 4, a helicopter with a water bucket crashed into a lake while helping to suppress a fire in Montana.
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Conservation scientists find value working with the private sector for biodiversity conservation (ForestPress)
05-08-2015 - Increasingly, the areas of the world with high biodiversity value overlap with areas of interest to the private sector for resource extraction (e.g. mining, oil and gas, logging), power generation (e.g. hydro, windpower, solar), and other development projects.
News Zimbabwe hunting (CNN)
Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP 05-08-2015 - Sportsmen stalked: Theo Bronkhorst -- one of the two Zimbabweans who allegedly were paid $50,000 to help Walter Palmer hunt and kill Cecil the lion -- was in court today on poaching charges.
