News Story by Henrique Almeida (PWN – Pine Wood Nematode – Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) ALCACER DO SAL, Portugal - Fernando Silva shook his head as he watched two lumberjacks cut through what remained of his small pine forest in the south of Portugal.
News BRUSSELS - European Union member states are falling behind a 2015 clean water target, the union's environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Thursday. "Only 43 percent of groundwater and 28 percent of surface water now meet, or are likely to meet, the quality targets by 2015, and this is not acceptable," Dimas told a news conference on the United Nations' "World Water Day."
Story by Julia Hayley MADRID - Some of the world's leading meteorologists said on Wednesday they had no doubt that humans were responsible for global warming.
News The Russian Federation has launched several international forestry initiatives during its first attendance of the FAO's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome on March 13, 2007. (COFO is the top collegiate body of the FAO's forestry programs that meets on a biannual basis. Russia joined the FAO in 2006.)
News Brussels, 20th of March, 2007: In a festive atmosphere the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially opened the newly established European Forestry House by pointing out the great potential of such a house help emphasise the importance of forestry for Europe.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA has the potential to match powerful nations if it can market its cultures and traditions as well as manage its vast natural resources. This could be achieved if the media stopped publishing negative stories about the country.
Dear Colleagues I’m pleased to announce a new Earthscan forestry title, published with CIFOR: ILLEGAL LOGGING: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade Edited by Luca Tacconi Foreword by Frances Seymour, Director-General, CIFOR Illegal logging is massively widespread – more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries – and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities? Written by the world’s foremost experts, this book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation
News Researchers from Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation are hoping a star appearance on Italian television will help efforts to preserve the critically endangered gilbert's potoroo. A crew from an Italian TV network has spent the past few days on Bald Island, near Albany in southern Western Australia, shooting footage of the potoroos, as well as filming department scientists tracking and trapping the animals.
We are pleased to invite You to the opening reception and inauguration of the European Forestry House through the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel
News Rome - For the first time, FAO will display at the upcoming Committee on Forestry (13-16 March), a historical collection of rare forestry books dating back to the eighteenth century that provide a snapshot in time of the state of forest research as it first developed in Central Europe and evolved through the beginning of the twentieth century.
Montreal – Sustainability for Success is the theme of the 2007 ForestLeadership Conference, geared towards decision makers and practitioners in the North American forest and paper sector. The event will feature some twenty prominent speakers and will be held in the same venue as, and just prior to, the 20th PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Conference.
News By MARTA FALCONI ROME — The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
News European researchers have recently provided, for the first time, evidence of a significant decline in wild bee diversity in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands over the past 25 years. The scientists also observed that the loss of this pollinator’s diversity is consistent with the loss of bee-pollinated plants.
News As a station of the procedure started in Vienna in December 2004, the scientific body of GOFOR met in Budapest on March 2, 2007. The objective of the meeting was to introduce and discuss the actual situation of the International Convention on the Carpathians and the Balkans, as part of multilateral international forest policies, as well as to introduce and discuss the results of the GOFOR EU research program on national forest analysis.
BEIJING - Six schoolboys playing with lighters started a fire that engulfed a forest in southwest China and took 10,000 firefighters two days to put out, state media reported on Friday. The fire was started on Thursday morning and spread over 233 hectares (575 acres) in Yunnan Province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing government sources.
Editorial The term “national forest programme” (NFP) designates the wide range of approaches to the process of planning, programming and implementing forest activities in a country, to be applied at national and subnational levels, based on a common set of guiding principles.
Press review National forest programmes Unasylva No. 225 Vol. 57, 2006/3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2006
News One of the most significant bands of the popular music era, Blondie, has announced a special date for this summer, when they will play Thetford Forest, Suffolk, as part of the Forestry Commission’s 2007 Forest Tour. Blondie’s show will be supporting The Commission’s valuable social and environmental programmes.
