News Mexico joins the campaign with 250 million trees Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon, declared that his country would plant 250 million trees in 2007. With this commitment, the Government of Mexico launched the Pro Árbol (Pro tree) Campaign. Its aims to reach one fourth of the goal the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global Campaign has set.
Integrating innovation and entrepreneurship in higher forestry education To whom? For undergraduate and postgraduate students of forestry or related sectors, as for example environment, business or rural development. For students who are interested in new knowledge, international exchange and putting theory into practice by working with real world cases!
News UNFF7 On Tuesday, 17 April, delegates heard ministerial statements and a performance by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City in celebration of the launching of the preparations for the 2011 International Year of Forests (IYF). UNFF Executive Director Patosaari said the IYF will stimulate action on forests, and urged participation of all stakeholders, in particular children and youth, stressing education as the main awareness-raising tool.
News Switzerland's second-biggest bank, Credit Suisse (CS), is facing demands for the financial compensation of indigenous people over the destruction of rainforests. The bank is organising moves by a leading Malaysian timber company, Samling, to float its shares on the stock market.
News BEIJING – Moderate rain forecast on Thursday is expected to help 9,000 fire fighters control a forest blaze that has been burning in northeast China for more than three days. The rain is expected in Heilongjiang Province and northeastern Inner Mongolia, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) forecast.
News Pekka Patosaari PREPARATIONS FOR 2011 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FORESTS LAUNCHED BY UNITED NATIONS FORUM The United Nations Forum on Forests officially launched the beginning of preparations for the 2011 International Year of Forests this morning, with speakers, representing some of the world’s greatest and most diverse ecosystems, stressing the need to use the observance of the International Year as a catalyst for raising global awareness of the urgent need to protect the planet’s fragile forest resources.
News Wildfire07 Sevilla • The increase of the temperature of the planet will produce major water stress and changes in the presence and density of arboreal species, according to a report of the FAO. • This information will be approached in Wildire07, which will have place from May 13 to May 17 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville. • The meeting will work in an international strategy to face this ecological, social and economic problem.
News SHANGHAI - China was sending thousands of personnel to battle a forest fire across a 3 km (1.9 mile) front in its remote northeastern mountains on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Nearly 1,000 firefighters had reached the scene of the blaze in the Great Xingan Mountains, near the Russian border in Heilongjiang Province, after the alarm was sounded on Monday.
This April appears to have been the driest since Germany has been recording the weather. Farmers and foresters alike are concerned, even as city dwellers flock to the beer gardens in their shirtsleeves. Foresters in the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, are concerned about fire in their pine forests, as the sandy ground the tree favors dries out more quickly than clay soils. The German capital has had no significant rain since March 23.
News by Ivailo Velkov and Shtilyana Chakarova The State should allow shooting of 50 wild bears annually, insists The Bulgarian Game NGO About a thousand bears are now wandering in Bulgarian forests. Their number has increased in the last few years, reports Bulgaria's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
News After 15 years of discussions and negotiations on a global approach to protect the world’s forests, countries meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York have adopted a landmark agreement on international forest policy and cooperation following two weeks of intense negotiations.
News New York, 16-27 April 2007 The seventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-6) was held from 16-27 April 2007, at UN headquarters in New York. Nearly 600 participants attended the two-week session, which was viewed by most as a gargantuan task of negotiating both a non-legally binding instrument (NLBI) for sustainable forest management (SFM) for all types of forests and a Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPOW) for the period 2007-2015.
News The European Commission recently presented its work programme for the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan (2007-2011), called for short “roadmap”. The key actions 1 to 18 are substantiated with working methods and instruments for the implementation within a certain time frame.
News BRASILIA - Brazil will break up its environmental protection agency, the government said on Wednesday, in a move that should speed up the licensing of projects such as gas pipelines and dams in sensitive areas like the Amazon rain forest. The announcement came days after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva complained about delays in the construction of two large hydropower dams in the Amazon.
By Jo MacFarlane Wood for fences is in short supply GARDENERS are struggling to buy fences at the height of the DIY season because Britain’s timber supplies are being shipped to China and Dubai.
By James A. Swan, Ph.D. Author of "In Defense of Hunting" Two new books finally present hunters as good guys in children's literature Walt Disney's animated feature film "Bambi," (1942), based on the 1923 children's novel, Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten, has left its mark on the psyche of generations of young children, who tearfully watch Bambi lose his mother due to a hunter's bullet.
By Richard Black A remarkable father-and-son research project has revealed how rising temperatures are affecting fungi in southern England. Fungus enthusiast Edward Gange amassed 52,000 sightings of mushroom and toadstools during walks around Salisbury over a 50-year period.
News Private individuals and families own slightly over half of the Finnish forests. There are almost one million forest owners in Finland, if we include all those who own forest holdings jointly. This means that nearly one fifth of the population are forest owners.
