The Forestry Commission has suspended the planting of Corsican pine - an important timber-producing tree – in the forests it manages because of the extent and severity of red band needle blight disease. Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii var. corsicana (syn. subsp. laricio) Corsican Pine, Calabrian Pine
Some 1000 bears roam Bulgaria’s mountains and forests. In data from the Ministry of Environment and Water their number has been on the rise in recent years. In the southeastern Rhodope Mountains alone, their population numbers 200. Fifteen bears live in Mount Vitosha on the outskirts of Sofia. Most of the bears are quite friendly. However every year there are reports of bear attacks on livestock.
Iranian engineering students have begun to build an earthquake-resistant model house on the parking lot of the Bergische University, based in the west German city of Wuppertal, IRNA reported. Construction which began on Thursday, is expected to be completed jointly by students of Bergische University and Isfahan Technical University on August 17.
News CAP: Commission launches a call for tender for a study on the development and marketing of non-marketed forest products and services The European Commission has launched a call for tender for a study on the development and marketing of non-marketed forest products and services. The main objective of this study is to acquire summarised information on the state-of-the-art in the field of valuation methods and compensation mechanisms for non-market forest goods and services.
ERDOS, China - China's dusty, vast and windswept Inner Mongolia has been battling the creeping desert for decades. Now a Chinese company is trying to hold back the sand and make money by turning a hardy tree into paper.
Nearly three years since the establishment of the Institute for Forest Certification in Slovenia, and following a thorough standards development process, detailed consultations with stakeholder groups of society and an independent assessment, the Slovenian Forest Certification System SFCS has now achieved PEFC endorsement.
Nathan Vanderklippe VANCOUVER - Canada stands at the very bottom of the world's forestry industries in a new PricewaterhouseCoopers comparison of global capital returns that only adds to the gloom that has overwhelmed the struggling sector for the past year.
By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH MUAR: From college dropout to mushroom millionaire – that sums up the success story of a village boy from Kampung Grisek, near here, who is now the biggest mushroom producer and exporter in the country.
PARIS - A Slovene bear, blamed by farmers for savaging sheep after being freed in the Pyrenees, has been killed in a road accident, the French Environment Ministry said on Thursday.
LISTENING to trees can help you choose the best quality of wood, Edinburgh scientists have discovered. An exhibition called Listen To What The Trees Are Saying, by Napier University scientists, has proven that sound waves can be used to measure wood at different stages in the supply chain, including standing trees.
Australia plans to lead an international effort to use satellites to monitor forests in the Asia-Pacific region. The plan will be unveiled at a meeting of ministers and diplomats from 70 countries gathering in Sydney today.
Bugs were alot bigger 300 million years ago A new study shows that the decrease of oxygen in the air has caused the insects to be much smaller than what they were 300 million years ago.
Swedish forest industry is the leader in investing in mobile broadband in the whole country. There are prospects of saving millions of euros when the forest industry's data centre, all forest machines and all trucks and interconnected by broadband.
News But how are they affecting family forests? In several parts of southern and eastern Europe, hundreds of forest fires have been reported. Summer wildfires are usual in Greece and this year more than 400 have already been reported, a scorching of 4,500 hectares of dense forest resulting in the deaths of hundreds of animals. In Italy, summer wildfires are also common. This summer, Calabria and Sicily were among the worst hit areas. On the French Riviera, fire-fighters have managed to contain the flames but more than 2 000 hectares of pine forests were nevertheless ravaged. In Spain, fires raged over pine forests on the island of Gran Canaria and Tenerife scorching 35,000 hectares.
News Swedish households and businesses become better and better at recycling paper. Last year constituted an all time record when the quantity collected amounted to 1,123.000 tons. More than three quarters of all paper products were recycled and used for producing new paper.
News Persian Gulf island of Kish A timber factory was inaugurated on Iran's Kish island. The first unit of the Middle East's largest timber industries factory has been inaugurated on Iran's Persian Gulf island of Kish.
News Dear Forests-L readers, The Overseas Development Institute is pleased to announce the availability of the latest publication in the ODI Forestry Briefing series. (http://www.odi.org.uk/fpeg/publications/policybriefs/forestrybriefings/0707_forestrybriefing13_carbonoffsets.pdf)..
News Rural-urban migration can increase vulnerability to forest fires Rome - Record summer temperatures and hot dry winds have made parts of the Mediterranean a tinder box with fire-fighters working around the clock to control blazes threatening people and vegetation on thousands of hectares of southern Italy, Greece, and other parts of the Mediterranean, FAO said today.
