News Dave Potter, left, and his cousin, Mark Combs By SAMIRA JAFARI WHITESBURG, Ky. - The crime scene - a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps - makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated.
Two individuals charged with illegal logging will be forced to replant the section of forest they chopped down in Phu Ninh District, Quang Nam Province. The penalty, the first of its kind, was announced Tuesday by the local administration.
News The sticky toe pads of tree frogs and crickets have inspired Indian researchers to create an adhesive tape that is both strong and reusable. Dr Animangsu Ghatak, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and colleagues report their findings in the journal Science.
News Slovenia has signed the Countdown 2010 Declaration to halt the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Ministers Janez Podobnik and Iztok Jarc plan to use sustainable forest management as the key to this commitment.
News Helen Morris A new approach to deal with “greenwashing” by companies associated with unacceptable forest practices is being reviewed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
Every new child born or adopted in Wales is to have a tree planted for them from the New Year. The scheme was the idea of Cardiff schoolgirl, Natalie Vaughan, 12, and is set to create 30 hectares (74 acres) of broad-leaved woodland annually.
Mladen Markac (L) appeared in court in The Hague in 2004 Croatian interior minister Ivica Kirin has resigned after being pictured on a boar hunt with a war crimes suspect. "I... offer my apology to all those that might have been harmed," Mr Kirin said in a resignation letter.
News Background Big Ivan tower By Svetlana Osadchuk The country's main New Year's tree in recent years has been brought in from Veliky Ustyug, a village about 1,000 kilometers northeast of Moscow that is considered the home of Grandfather Frost.
News Oberstdorf, Germany – He won the title of world champion of the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES, the elite division of lumberjacking sports, in Oberstdorf, Bavaria (Germany). Defending champion Jason Wynyard, likewise of New Zealand, took second place. The surprise third-place finisher was Swiss champion Hermann Schönbächler.
New York - The motivation of local people to safeguard their own forest resources is central to a new global forest protection ageement reached by the UN General Assembly last week. Fifteen years after global discussions began on how to protect the world's forests, the General Assembly has adopted a new international forest agreement that is human-centered in its orientation.
Damage in 2007, according to the data of the Central Agricultural Office The survey of the effect of transboundary air pollution made on forests has been going on since 1988, and it is proceeded annually, in 4x4 km sampling grid.
Budapest – Past decades of the Hungarian forest management, after the Treaty of Trianon, the socialization and later the privatization, show an appropriate management of our forests and natural resources, in behalf of the society. Hungarian forests are developing in both qualitative and quantitative aspects, despite of the serious challenges emerging after the chaotic period of the world war, and the political and economic decisions of the post-world-war period.
According to the data of the Central Agricultural Office Budapest – Young stands of natural regenerations and plantages are especially vulnerable to various deteriorations. Forest authority regularly investigates the damage to the ongoing afforestations during the yearly confirming the existence of the investment on site. The authority takes the data down for record.
News Juliette Jowit, environment Editor Yellowstone's successful reintroduction of packs inspired idea to release them into the Highlands Ten years ago wildlife experts released 31 wolves into the wild in America's Yellowstone National Park. From that small beginning, hundreds of grey wolves in packs now roam the vast park and beyond in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and have changed the ecology of the region.
Budapest – Supports are means of facilitating the realization of certain aims of forest policy. This way, smallholders are made to be interested in achieving a common aim that embodies social concerns.
Berlin - As the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami nears, German scientists say they are working hard to honour a promise made to Indonesia to create an Indian Ocean alert system to prevent a repeat of the 2004 tragedy. "The aim is to be able to send out an alert within 10 minutes of the earthquake that sets off the giant waves and to save lives," said Joern Lauterjung of Germany's national research centre for geoscience (GFZ) in Potsdam outside Berlin.
Budapest – Hungary. Hungarian society is proud of the sustainable forest management that is maintained in its forests. This means that the demand for wood in the country is satisfied without endangering the reproduction of the material and immaterial values provided by the forest.
News Abraham Lincoln oak American Forests (www.americanforests.org), is the nation's oldest nonprofit conservation group. Our mission, to grow a healthier world with trees, is met through programs such as Famous & Historic Trees that help people understand how trees benefit us all-environmentally, socially, and economically. Our many efforts on behalf of trees include tree planting, urban forestry, environmental education, community-based forestry, and the Famous & Historic Trees program.
