Sports Switzerland's ski industry is contemplating opening the country's first indoor ski area to encourage more young people living in urban areas to take up the sport. According to the Swiss association of mountain lift companies, the number of youngsters who know how to ski or snowboard is decreasing by about ten per cent a year.
Dear friends and colleagues, While wishing all of our friends and colleagues a happy and successful 2007, we present this third edition of ForLive Highlights. Among other matters, in this edition we report on the current situation of forest management in Bolivia ten years after the approval of the new Forest Law and the importance of the forest in terms of economic benefits for small farmers in Ecuador. The harvesting of palm fibre from Aphandra natalia by small farmers provides and example of a promising initiative of sustainable forest management in the Amazon.
News Far from being a bad omen, the news from organizer Survey Marketing + Consulting (Bielefeld, Germany) on the 13th "ZOW - East Westphalia Supplier Show" in Bad Salzuflen is simply "house sold out". From February 26 to March 1, 2007, the trade platform for the furniture and interior design industries will present its most diverse program of special events to date.
Unofficial calculations indicate that the part of renewable energy in Finland will increase to 40 % until the year 2020. The corresponding target for the whole EU is 20 %. Demand for wood based raw materials will increase for both heating, traffic and electricity production.
News By Jan Velinger Photo by ForestPress Specialists have revealed that there was a sharp rise in the incidence in tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, in the Czech Republic last year. Some 1000 people contracted the potentially deadly disease which is transmitted by deer ticks: 60 percent more than in 2005.
News By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats dismissed as "unworkable'' the first budget request of new Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell. Kimbell, the first woman to head the Forest Service, came under fire Tuesday as she defended President Bush's request for the next budget year, which deals her agency a spending cut and eliminates more than 2,100 jobs.
Research FAO TCP/HUN/3003 Project: DRAFT Summary Report Support to the design and development of innovative forest management schemes Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary Food and Agriculture Organisation Budapest Forest Enterprise
News NEW YORK, (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) – To bolster efforts that will promote sustainable management, conservation and development of forests worldwide, the General Assembly adopted a resolution today declaring the year 2011 as the International Year of Forests.
News ‘Recognition of The Positive Impact Made to Improve The Lives of Dogs & Owners’ Representatives from the Forestry Commission attended the Kennel Club headquarters today (Friday 2 February), to receive the KC Dog Recognition Award for ‘a national authority which has made a positive impact to help improve the lives of dogs and their owners.’
Forestry interventions to reduce poverty by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Contents: INTRODUCTION HOW NATURAL FORESTS CAN BETTER CONTRIBUTE TO LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY REDUCTION AGROFORESTRY
News Vancouver has been recognized as a TREE CITY USA since 1989. The TREE CITY USA program is designed to recognize communities that effectively manage their urban forest and meet the four TREE CITY USA standards.
News Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)has indicated that a new tree plantation in the Gellibrand River catchment is likely to improve the quality of water resources A decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has given the go-ahead for a tree plantation to be established in the Gellibrand area in country Victoria, citing the environmental benefits tree plantations offer rural Australia.
News By OLIVER SCHMALE BERLIN - A German appellate court in Stuttgart proposed $19,500 fine Tuesday against a 70-year-old man who fatally beat an escaped golden eagle with his walking stick after it attacked his dachshund. The court agreed with a lower court's decision that a wildlife center that let the eagle escape was partly responsible, but it attributed even more blame to the pensioner, more than doubling his penalty.
INVITATION for the TCP project TCP/HUN/3003 “Support to the Design and Development of Innovative Forest Management Schemes” PROJECT-CLOSING CONFERENCE
Press room Frequency: yearly 28 February - 4 March 2007 HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Centre
News Wolves are being removed from the endangered species list in three US states - and wildlife authorities say they plan to do the same in three more. The move paves the way for the hunting of wolves in the US for the first time in more than 30 years.
News Foreign haulage contractors will be permitted to haul timber from storm stricken areas in Southern Sweden without any traffic permit. This exception from normal regulations will apply in ten provinces in Southern Sweden. The exception is only temporary and will remain in force from 12 February to 30 September 2007.
News An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Yanbin Li, professor of biological engineering in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, has developed a portable biosensor for in-field, rapid screening of avian influenza virus.
