News the President, Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner On the 20th of October at 05:00 p.m., the President of the Nation will participate in the Symbolic Planting Ceremony and will unveil an allegorical plaque in the Gardens of Casa Rosada. She will also offer a press conference graced with the presence of special guests, national and international authorities.
News The forests of Argentina have suffered a loss of between 60 percent and 70 percent overall, the Environmental Secretariat reported. "In 100 years, we have lost between 60 and 70 percent of our forest heritage," said Environmental Undersecretary Sergio La Rocca.
News Olive groves with low production close to Sierra de Cardena y Montoro, in Córdoba – which is the only place, along with Donana, where the Iberian lynx, at risk of extinction, lives – have been identified to restore its habitat.
INDIGENOUS Amazonians have reached an agreement with Spanish scientists allowing the latter to buy 100,000 hectares of rainforest for conservation reasons.
News Auckland - Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom called for a comprehensive change in the approach to global environmental problems in a lecture given at the University of Auckland on Friday.
News The XIII? World Forestry Congress, to be held as of next 18th to 23rd of October, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be the first World Forestry Congress which shall achieve “Carbon Neutral” ranking.
News Bharrat Jagdeo is president of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana 21 September 2009 - A Copenhagen deal must enable countries like ours to generate an income by conserving forests rather than cutting them down
News A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environment Program SAO PAULO - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a new United Nations advocate for environmental awareness — and reportedly wants her own president to do more to halt Amazon deforestation.
News Alexey Savinov : “In times of global financial and economic crisis and globalization of economy, the role of state forest management is essential for the sustainable development of society and the attainment of the goals formulated in United Nations Millennium Declaration.”
News The second Chatham House-RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change will be held in Washington DC on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd October 2009.
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News Faidherbia albida Nairobi, Kenya - Scientists have said at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry that a type of acacia tree with an unusual growth habit-unlike virtually all other trees-holds particular promise for farmers in Africa as a free source of nitrogen for their soils that could last generations.
Nina Kolyako,Riga The Latvian fruit and vegetable processing company Pure Food will export 200 tons of specially prepared Latvian blueberries to China in September, as LETA learned from chairman of the board at Pure Food Aigars Balodis.
18 – 25 October 2009 - Buenos Aires - Argentina At its 128th session, the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) selected the Republic of Argentina to organize the XIII World Forestry Congress to be held from 18 to 25 October 2009 in the city of Buenos Aires. This event – held every six years – is expected to attract about 6 000 participants from more than 160 countries.
By Alan Boswell Nairobi - The authors of a new report released in Nairobi say that agricultural practices need not drive deforestation worldwide, but can instead be used to replenish the world's diminishing trees. The study used satellite imagery to find that nearly half of the world's crop lands also contain what it deemed as "significant" tree cover.
In the 2008 forestry year a total of 55.367m m3 (2007: 76.728m m3) roundwood was felled in Germany.
By Mariko Oi - BBC Asia Business Report One would not usually associate DNA tests with forests but in Singapore such a test has been developed for trees.
Washington - Russian scientists claim that genetically altered birch and aspen trees have successfully grown in half the time within greenhouse environments. Now, the scientists are moving outdoors in an attempt to curb deforestation in eastern Europe.
