News from the world of forests

Press review

Climate modellers take tropical approach (nature.com)

Jeff Tollefson - Ten-year US-led project seeks to plug gaps in global-warming simulations.

2015. March 25.

Research

Farms that save space for flowers give bees a boost (treehugger.com)

Margaret Badore (@mbadore) March 24, 2015 - For over a decade, bee populations have been declining dramatically all over the world.

2015. March 25.

Press review

Dwindling Forest Habitats Threatening World's Ecosystems Says Study (Tech Times)

By Anu Passary, March 23, 2015 - As concerns pertaining to environmental change grow by the day, a new study reveals that the world's forest cover is dwindling at an alarming rate and poses a major threat to the global ecosystem.

2015. March 25.

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Future of Forestry: Sustainable Solutions

Friday, March 27, 2015

2015. March 22.

News

EUSTAFOR’s New President and Executive Committee Appointed (ForestPress)

Brussels, 6 March 2015 - Sveaskog’s CEO Per-Olof Wedin has been elected as the new Chairman of EUSTAFOR replacing Georg Erlacher Österreichische Bundesforste AG (Austria).

2015. March 19.

Press review

NSP boiler consumed 50 truckloads of wood biomass a day in 2014 (CBC News/forestbusinessnetwork.com)

By Jennifer Henderson, Mar 19, 2015 Power company imported one quarter of woody biomass used by plant in first full year of operation

2015. March 19.

News

Hungarian enterprises are mainly public forestry tree (MTI)

Zalalövö, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 - First performance of the domestic enterprises with sufficient quality and quantity of raw material serves timber traffic control state forestry enterprises have recently introduced - said Wednesday Zalalövő secretary of state for public lands for the Ministry of Agriculture.

2015. March 19.

News

Chile firefighters contain blaze near Valparaiso (bbc.com)

16 March 2015 - Firefighters in Chile say they have managed to control a huge forest fire around the port cities of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar.

2015. March 16.

News

Sandor Farago honored (Forest Press)

15 March 2015 - President of the Republic Hungary - the Prime Minister for tabling - National Day, March 15 on the occasion of Sandor Farago professional forester, Professor, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of West Hungary Rector

2015. March 16.

Press review

At Least Four States Are Pushing Koch-Backed Legislation To Ban Funding EPA’s Climate Rule (thinkprogress.org)

by Emily Atkin - March 13, 2015 Lawmakers from at least four states have introduced model legislation from the right-wing group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) seeking to prohibit state funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to fight climate change.

2015. March 15.

Press review

Forest tree seeds arrive at Svalbard's 'Doomsday vault' (bbc.com)

By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News 13 March 2015 - The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds.

2015. March 15.

Tourists

10 Things You Didn't Know About Our National Forests (nationalforests.org)

13 March 2015 - Most Americans can name several National Parks.

2015. March 14.

Press review

Project launched to up Gwynedd's red squirrel numbers (bbc.com)

13 March 2015 - Conservationists are working to boost red squirrel numbers in north Wales.

2015. March 13.

Press review

First UK-farmed truffle harvested (bbc.com)

10 March 2015 - By Claire Marshall The first truffle to have been cultivated on UK soil has been harvested from a field in Leicestershire, according to a plant biologist.

2015. March 11.

Press review

Lynx to be reintroduced into wild in Britain after a 1,300-year absence (independent.co.uk)

8 March 2015 - Ian Johnston - Lynx are to be reintroduced into the wild in Britain after a 1,300-year absence, under an ambitious “rewilding” plan drawn up by a conservation charity.

2015. March 11.