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BBC |
6 days 22 hours ago
(BBC) - Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the "implications of 'peak timber'", a study has suggested.
A team of researchers says the standard cutting cycle of 30-40 years is too short to allow trees to grow to a volume required by...
Yale UNI |
6 days 22 hours ago
China has undertaken ambitious reforestation initiatives that have increased its forest cover dramatically in the last decade. But scientists are now raising questions about just how effective these grand projects will turn out to be.
Tags: afforestation, Aufforstung, China, Pflanzung, planting, Forestry
New Strait Times |
6 days 20 hours ago
SABAH is fast becoming a trailblazer in sustainable forest management. This is evident from the numerous accolades, notably from the United Nations, World Wildlife Fund Malaysia, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Prince Charles Charity, for the success of its forest...
Reuters |
6 days 20 hours ago
(Reuters) - The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a billion trees, according to estimates from the Texas Forest Service.
"In 2011, Texas experienced an exceptional drought, prolonged high winds, and record-setting temperatures," Forest...
Journal Online |
6 days 20 hours ago
THE House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading a proposed law imposing life imprisonment to people engaged in illegal logging.
Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said the measure would strengthen government’s campaign against illegal loggers which is now...
Bloomberg |
6 days 20 hours ago
Global Environment Fund, a U.S. private-equity firm with $1 billion under management, completed the closing of a $160 million fund for sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa.
The GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund, ahead of its $150 million target, will invest $15-$30 million in existing and...
The Economic Times India |
6 days 20 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to review the spending of the funds of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). The move is an effort to ensure transparency in implementation of the compensatory...
UPI |
6 days 20 hours ago
Timber production in the world's tropical countries is exceeding the forests' ability to replace the felled trees, an Australian report says.
Researchers at Australian National University and James Cook University said the standard cutting cycle of 30-40 years is too short to allow trees to...
Your Story |
6 days 19 hours ago
The sale of 20 forestry plantations in Ireland has received the backing of FRA, which supports investment in sustainable forestry projects around the world.
Seattle, United States, January 19, 2012 — The sale of 20 forestry plantations in Ireland has received the backing of Forestry Research...
CIFOR |
6 days 21 hours ago
Indigenous and community groups have made a wish-list detailing how schemes that aim to reduce deforestation and forest degradation should work for those living in and amongst the forest.
Financial Post |
6 days 20 hours ago
There has been much controversy over the Harper government’s complaints about U.S. foundation-funded environmental “radicals.”
I suggested here last week that it was at least as important to emphasize green NGOs’ use of misinformation and bully-boy tactics as their funding....
EFI |
1 week 9 hours ago
Major forest infrastructure will be opened up to researchers from the public and private sectors across Europe thanks to the newly started project Designing trees for the Future (Trees4Future). For the first time key infrastructures within the European forest based sector, including databases,...
NewsWire |
1 week 9 hours ago
After a month of escalating rhetoric from the Harper government and oil industry front groups and confirmation today from internal government documents that the government explicitly identified environmental and aboriginal groups as "adversaries" in its strategy to increase tar sands...
The Citizen |
1 week 8 hours ago
Dar es Salaam. The campaign to improve forest governance in the country yesterday got a major boost as Finland and Norway contributed a $ 5,060,000 towards the second phase of Mama Misitu campaign.
The second phase which will take off this year to 2016, is expected to improve transparency and...
Huffington Post |
1 week 8 hours ago
As we watch the world debate how best to address climate change, and as carbon emissions continue to soar, at least one climate strategy strikes me as a "no-brainer." We should do everything we can to save the world's forests.
Times of Zambia |
1 week 8 hours ago
CLIMATE change presents a real threat to human development and it is already undermining productive sectors like agriculture which has the highest potential to reduce poverty levels in Zambia.
Not only has the rainfall pattern changed, with some areas recording reduced rainfall, other areas have...
Forest Talk |
1 week 7 hours ago
The government should do more to oversee private-sector forest companies to make sure they do an adequate job of successfully reforesting areas where timber has been harvested, Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter says in his 2011 Annual Report.
Forest Carbon Asia |
1 week 7 hours ago
China has formulated “forest response to climate change five actions points” to implement the National Economic and Social Development Twelfth Five-Year Plan, forestry development second five year plan and Forestry Action Plan to address climate change, and further promote the...
Forest Carbon Asia |
1 week 8 hours ago
Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests. The twenty-eight minute video, documents opposition among Indigenous Peoples, forest-dependent communities and environmental justice groups...
Reuters |
1 week 8 hours ago
(REUTERS) - An international fund to protect the Amazon forest launched by Brazil in 2008 has gotten bogged down in red tape and donors are frustrated their $466 million contributions are hardly put to use, a Norwegian official said.
The fund was designed to slow deforestation by stimulating...
Tags: Brasilien, Brazil, Forestry, Naturschutz, Conserveration