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Early Start to the 2015 Fire Season (pfla.bc.ca)
15-06-2015 - Below normal precipitation levels for May and June, coupled with a lower than normal snowpack have officials warning coastal British Columbians to prepare for an intense 2015 fire season.
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Scientists Are Color-Coding Forests To Make Maps Showing Best Path To Conservation (pusatnews.com)
By Ardhie Echel on June 14, 2015 The word “green” has become common parlance for “good for the environment.”
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Wildlife trafficking and organized crime (ForestPress)
15 June 2015 - An interview with Dr. Rolf D. Baldus
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New guide on preventing child labour in agriculture (ForestPress)
15 June 2015, Rome - Provides a suite of tools for use by development professionals, policymakers, civil society groups
News Greenpeace fights ‘eco-terrorist’ charge (NUGGET.CA)
14 June 2015 - Greenpeace is fighting back after members of North Eastern Ontario Municipal Association (NEOMA) likened the environmentalist group to “eco-terrorism.”
Press room IUFRO News, Volume 44, Double Issue 5&6, 2015
Cross-sectoral Policy Impacts on Managerial Economics and Accounting in Forestry
News Large Carnivores: EU Platform on coexistence meets in Brussels (ForestPress)
10 June 2015 - One year after its establishment, the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores met for their second annual meeting on 2 June 2015 in Brussels.
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First International Day of Forests Celebrated (ForestPress)
21 March 2013: A number of high-level officials have issued statements in celebration of the first-ever International Day of Forests, including the UN Secretary-General, and the Heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
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The CIC Welcomes His Royal Highness Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta to the 62nd CIC General Assembly in Pravets, Bulgaria (ForestPress)
7 April 2015 - The CIC proudly announces the attendance of His Royal Highness Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta at the 62nd CIC General Assembly in Pravets, Bulgaria.
Press review Forest Fires Threaten New Fallout From Chernobyl (nytimes.com)
By RACHEL NUWER - 6 April 2015 - On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine released a plume of radiation that eventually blanketed an estimated 77,000 square miles of Europe and Eurasia.
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Icelandic Forestry at Times of Climate Change
31 March 2015 - The science behind the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is tried and true and measurements showing ever increasing concentration of carbon dioxide and higher global temperatures are correct.
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Malaysia's indigenous hit hard by deforestation (aljazeera.com)
Jarni Blakkarly | 02 Apr 2015 - Kuala Wok, Malaysia - The clear-cutting of forests is thought to have played a role in Malaysia's worst flooding in decades.
Press review Obama Is Trying To Protect A Huge Arctic Wildlife Zone, But Congress Likely Won’t Have It (thinkprogress.org)
by Natasha Geiling Posted on April 6, 2015 On Friday, President Obama formally sent Congress recommendations to set aside a majority of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, finalizing a request first announced by the White House in January.
Press review Monsanto, Blamed for Killing Monarchs, Donates Millions to Save the Butterflies (takepart.com)
By Willy Blackmore - 5 April 2015 - The ag giant this week announced nearly $4 million in donations to conservation programs.
Forestschools Handed over to the forest schools rating charters (Forest Press)
4 April 2015 - Been solemnly through the forest schools rating their diplomas on 21 March, in Budapest, the International Day of Forests Budakeszi Wildlife Park.
