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World Water Week in Stockholm (ForestPress)
Welcome to the World Water Week in Stockholm August 16-22, 2009 The World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.
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Facts on world's water shortage (Manila Bulletin)
With California in its third year of drought, concern over access to clean water is no longer limited to the developing world.
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Forest fire damage in Europe in 2009 already higher than in 2008 (forestportal.efi)
Estimates from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) show that 200 000 hectares of land in the EU have already burnt in 2009, compared to a total of 180 000 in 2008.
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Pakistan Sets Guinness World Record for Tree Planting (unep.org)
Fresh from the victory of the T20 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan hit another high by setting a Guinness World Record for planting 541,176 trees in 24 hours. The young mangrove saplings were planted by 300 volunteers on 15 July without using any mechanical equipment in the vast wetlands of the Indus River Delta in Thatta district.
News Irish national park bans horses without 'nappies' (AFP)
DUBLIN: Horse-drawn carts were banned from one of Ireland's most famous national parks Tuesday in an escalation of a long-running row about their refusal to use "nappies" to deal with the horse dung.
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German Govt Gives Grant For International Forest Instrument (Ghanaian Times)
The German Government has given a 200,000 euros grant for the implementation of the International 'Forest Instrument.'
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Hall for old forestry machines raised record donations (forest.fi)
Forest owners and timber buyers amassed a record sum of 330,000 euros for the new machinery hall and exhibition at the Forest Museum Lusto.
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China forestry sector output totals $195 bln, up 13% year on year (www.chinaview.cn)
TIANJIN, (Xinhua) -- Production by China's forestry industry rose 13 percent last year to 1.33 trillion yuan (194.7 billion U.S. dollars), a senior forestry official told a conference that ended Sunday.
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Man uses chain saw in Wyo. mountain lion attack (denverpost.com)
BILLINGS, Mont.—A Colorado man used a chain saw to fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.
News Finnish and Hungarian Ministers of Agriculture agree on closer cooperation (mmm.fi)
Photo by ForestPress The Finnish and Hungarian Ministers of Agriculture, Sirkka-Liisa Anttila and József Gráf, met in Budapest on 15 July to discuss closer cooperation between the two countries with regard to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and to agree on separate bilateral development projects.
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Wild-flower programme aims to bring back bees (swissinfo.ch)
Basel-based agrichemical concern Syngenta has launched a five-year programme designed to help farmers by bringing bees and other pollinating insects close to fields.
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Japanese Regional Banks Cooperate to Protect Forests (ForestPress)
Fifty-six Japanese regional banks, including the Bank of Kyoto, announced on April 14, 2009, that they have developed the FY2009 plan "Regional Bank Federation for Protecting Japanese Forests" to launch full-scale forest conservation activities.
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First joint Genome Center in the Balkans opens doors in Sofia (RadioBulgaria)
A Genome Center founded under a joint project of the Ministry of Agriculture and St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia opened doors on the premises of the University’s Department of Biology. The Ministry has provided financing for the project.
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$2 million to support more women leaders in agriculture (maff.gov.au)
More women will be supported as leaders in agricultural industries with another $2 million in grants announced today by the Rudd Government under the Recognising Women Farmers initiative.
News G8 leaders declare support for REDD forest conservation initiative (mongabay.com)
A declaration issued by political leaders meeting at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, included a strong statement on the need to include forest conservation in a future climate agreement. Deforestation accounts for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a larger source of emissions than all the world's cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes combined.
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Increasing felling opportunities in Finland (Nordic Forestry)
The latest national forest inventory in Finland indicates that the forest capital is still on the increase. According to the tenth national survey the aggregate growing stock volume is now 2.2 billion m3. Annual growth is 99.5 million m3.
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'Savvy' croc evades WA shooters (abc.net.au)
Professional shooters brought in to destroy an aggressive crocodile in Western Australia's north have failed to kill the animal.
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Wisconsin moves to lower hunting age to 10 (Associated Press)
By RYAN J. FOLEY MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin lawmakers moved Thursday to lower the hunting age by two years to 10 and offer youngsters reduced license fees in an effort to preserve the state's hunting culture.
