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Ban on deer hunts using hounds a step closer (Irish Times)
CABINET HAS approved heads of a Bill which will make deer-hunting with hounds an offence, Minister for the Environment John Gormley has confirmed.
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The forest owners’ contribution to shaping the future of European Union: priorities for 2009 -2014
Forests are one of Europe's most important renewable resources. By providing a wide range of products and services, growth and jobs in rural areas forests and forest industry can compete with almost all other sources by which humans obtain essential commodities.
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Hungary opens first "zero emissions" air-conditioner plant in NE (MTI)
Budapest, - A three-billion-forint air conditioner plant opened at the northeastern town of Perkupa on Thursday. The plant pledges to use environmentally-friendly technology that is unique in Hungary and in Central and Eastern Europe, the Hungarian owner, Genex said in a statement.
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Nigeria: Finnish Eaglets Discovered in Nation (allafrica.com)
Chuwang Dungs Jalingo — Two infant eagles, suspected to be male and a female and believed to have migrated from a zoo in Finland, were last week trapped separately by two young fishermen in a river called Thaton in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area in Taraba State.
News Russia's Putin sees climate deal, but with conditions (thestar.com.my/ news.yahoo.com)
MOSCOW - Russia will support a new global climate deal only if major powers also sign up and take into account the role Russia's giant forests play as the lungs of the world, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
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Awareness of Biodiversity Increases, Though Visibility of COP10 Still Low (japanfs.org)
Nord Institute for Society and Environment, a Japanese consulting firm specializing in socio-environmental policy, released on August 20, 2009,
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EU-Climate Change (MTI)
Hungary insists EU must recognise earlier efforts, economic gap in climate change proposal
News Second Breeding Season Found Among Migratory Songbirds (sciencedaily.com)
Coccyzus americanus 26 October 2009, - Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.
Press review Green jobs ( Unasylva No. 233)
Vol. 60, 2009/3 - In 2009 the world confronts financial and economic crisis. What does it mean for the forest sector, and what can the sector do to respond?
News WFC: With an initial expected number of 4 000 participants rising up to over 7 000 (ForestPress)
Buenos Aires, Argentina - “We should not exclude any potential means of mitigating climate change - said Jan Heino, Assistant Director General of the Forestry Department at FAO, just as the World Forestry Congress drew to a close on Friday 23 October.
News Cristina Fernádez de Kirchner to open the XIII WFC 2009 (FoestPress)
Hungary no one shall represent the World Congress
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New energy era blows into Scotland’s forests (forestry.gov.uk)
Forestry Commission Scotland is ramping up its contribution to generating clean and renewable energy by developing more wind energy projects on its land.
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WFC side event: forests and poverty alleviation
The University of Copenhagen and CIFOR invites you to the WFC side event: Poverty Environment Network (PEN): assessing the role of tropical forests in poverty alleviation When: Monday 19 October at 18:30-20:30 Where: Blue Pavillion, room Pehuén
Research Ozone Meeting in Forest Research Institute (ForestPress)
After the Expert Panel on Deposition and the Meeting of QA/QC Working Group in 2007 further international meeting took place in Hungary in connection with the European intensive monitoring on forest health.
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Save the forests, help save the planet – UN agricultural official (un.org/ForestPress)
“Damage to forest ecosystems is affecting everyone in the world through climate change, water scarcity and the loss of biological diversity,” UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Assistant Director General of Forestry Jan Heino said ahead of a meeting later this month of World Forestry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
News Private forestry to fight crisis via energy and changed regulation – Hungary (CEPF/ForestPress)
Woody biomass plays so far the largest part of renewable energy production in Hungary. The conference tackled its further potentials in Hungary and its positive impacts on private forestry. New EU regulation on rural development yet to be implemented causing serious financial problems for the forest owners.
