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Lawyers for the Grassy Narrows First Nation have filed their appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada.

The appeal is concerning the recent Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision that the province has authority to issue logging permits on all public lands and forests in the province, including First Nations’ traditional lands.

“Grassy Narrows is determined to protect its treaty rights and to protect the integrity of our lands. (The lower court judge) made the right decision when she held the governments to the agreement they made with our people in 1873. We were gravely disappointed when the Court of Appeal disagreed. We hope that the Supreme Court of Canada will agree to hear our appeal and restore the trial judgment,” said Simon Fobister, the chief of Grassy Narrows.

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Grassy Narrows files Supreme Court appeal over logging rights (Kenora Daily Miner and News)

Related news: July DaSilva, a First Nations rights activist from Grassy Narrows has received the Michael Sattler Peace Prize from the German Mennonite Peace Committe this week to “honour the nonviolent resistance of the Grassy Narrows First Nation against the destruction of nature and for the preservation of their Indigenous culture.”  See: First Nations activist receives international peace prize 

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Nova Scotia has released a report that summarizes what Nova Scotians said are the best ways to use the 1.5-million acres of Crown land in the province’s western region to ensure sustainable economic, social and environmental benefits for communities.

The report summarizes comments received at nine open-house consultations in March and April, at stakeholder meetings, and through online submissions.

“The responses we’ve heard confirm that Nova Scotians are passionate about land use,” said Natural Resources Minister Charlie Parker. “Overall, Nova Scotians have told us that they want to be involved in managing their land, that long-term environmental, social and economic sustainability is vital, and that they recognize different land uses need to be balanced.”

The report summarizes attendance and overall public response:

• about 676 people attended the public open houses
• 66 people (representing 57 stakeholder groups) attended stakeholder meetings
• 166 people submitted ideas online
• 44 separate submissions were received through other channels

The key themes from the submissions and stakeholder focus groups are drawn together in the summary report. The comments will help develop a sustainable plan for the land, which includes lands purchased from Bowater Mersey Ltd.

The report outlines the most prominent issues for stakeholders, including:

• tourism and recreation
• forestry
• vehicular access
• sustainability
• protection
• resource extraction
• continuing consultation and engagement processes

The final land and resource management plan for the western Crown land plan will include sustainable forestry management, as described in the province’s natural resources strategy, The Path We Share. It will also meet new policies and guidelines for better forest management.

The summary report is available at: http://novascotia.ca/natr/land/western-land .

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Pyrescence and the ecology of forest fire-prone lands have influenced all species of flora and fauna that live near fire. In this "presence of fire" all plants, including trees, have biologically changed to exist and even thrive with flame and fire.

Serotiny of some seed plants evolved to use the heat of fire to trigger seed fall and is a major factor in tree regeneration where fire is common. Heated cones drop ripe seed, some that have been stored in canopy cones for decades. These seed are dispersed onto a cool but burnt seed bed where extra light, less plant competition and extra temporary nutrients provide for seedling regeneration.

• Serotiny and the Serotinous Cone

Image, Serotinous Cones of Jack Pine - Bill Cook, Michigan State University/Forestryimages.org

 

How to Manage and ID Fringetree or Old-man's-beard

The world’s largest international forestry convention ElmiaWood becomes wider than ever. The industry is gearing up for a real human and machine party when manufacturers and suppliers to showcase their new products and innovations in the forests south of Jönköping 5 to 8 Jun 2013. It’s still tough times in the forest industry, but the pressure and interest in the show is bigger than ever. We have never had such a big exhibition stand space in terms, says Torbjörn Johnsen from ElmiaWood.

In the forests south of Jönköping the leading manufacturers and suppliers are gathered to show their innovations. ElmiaWood is an extremely important exhibition, says Jörgen Ivarsson at Rottne Industri.

 Participation in the world’s largest forestry fair involves a lot of work and in Rottne we’re now working hard to finish the last details. . – It is important to be visible and show the market that despite the downturn, product development continues the improve . We will show our customers a new generation of COMFORT LINE. The new engine tier IIIB  is in place and the new extensions as well. -More than that I will not reveal, says Jörgen, but welcome all customers and interested parties to booth 808.

We also take the opportunity to meet and welcome our dealers from different parts of the world.

ElmiaWood has nearly 500 exhibitors and 50,000 visitors over 4 days and is held every four years.The fairground is located in Brattorp 30 kilometers south of Jönköping.
www.elmiawood.se

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Maharashtra’s Tribal Development Department is helping 18 villages in three districts to use the Forest Rights Act to exercise their control over tendu leaves.

By Thomas Hubert, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 22 May 2013 | As the world grapples with implementing a U.N.-backed scheme aimed at slowing forest loss and degradation (REDD+), new research from Cameroon shows that the complexity of the scheme demands expertise from a variety of players within and outside government. “The variety of aspects covered by REDD+ means the Ministry of Environment can no longer be expected to lead the way on its own,” says Denis Sonwa, scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research and co-author of REDD+ policy strategy in Cameroon: Actors, institutions and governance. “It is critical that the state reinvent itself as a learning organization that takes advantage of the expertise offered by other actors in global networks so that it can perform the required leadership and coordination role in designing a national REDD+ strategy.”

By Ana Madigibuli, Fiji Times, 23 May 2013 | Fiji is looking at ways it could improve its logging practices so less harm is done to its forests. This was highlighted during the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) plus strategy workshop in Suva last week. "The workshop is to largely develop the Fiji REDD plus strategy which started in 2011," said Christina Fung, the German Technical Co-operation landuse planning and facilitation specialist, during the REDD plus stakeholders workshop in Lami last week. REDD is a concept that links financial incentives to forest conservation, sustainable management, and enhancing and increasing carbon stocks for credits for carbon emissions avoided and or carbon sequestered.

Unconfirmed reports that China is preparing to cap its greenhouse gas output has raised hopes among observers worldwide that the planet’s biggest emitter will act to break a stalemate in global climate negotiations, despite widespread caution that any limit Beijing sets will be too high to prevent damaging warming.

 

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Many of the trees planted under the government’s reforestation programme are dying because there is insufficient funding to maintain them.

 

The Forestry Department has observed that of the trees planted by people and the government, about 65-70 percent have survived, department Deputy Director General, Mr Thong Eth Phayvanh, told Vientiane Times yesterday.

 

In contrast, commercial tree growers are seeing survival rates of between 80-100 percent as their budget covers post-plantation support, according to the department.

 

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is planning with various government departments and companies to introduce different species of native trees to about 30,000 hectares of land, Mr Thong Eth said. However, he believes they will achieve only 30-40 percent of this target because some provinces have limited space available due to land allocation issues.

 

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The opening of the International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress in the Malaysian state of Sarawak was marred by indigenous protests and controversy after a local indigenous leader was barred from attending a pre-conference workshop. Over 300 people from local indigenous people protested the ongoing construction of around a dozen mega-dams in the state that threaten to flood traditional lands, force villages to move, and upend lives in the state. The Sarawak hydropower plans are some of the most controversial in the world—making the choice of Kuching, Sarawak for the IHA meeting an arguably ironic one—with critics contending that the dams are have been mired in political corruption, including kickbacks and bribes. IHA brings together dam builders, banks, and various related organizations worldwide every two years.

 

“We were not given a voice inside the congress so we are using our voices here in the form of a protest,” said Mark Bujang, Secretary with the SAVE Rivers network, a coalition of indigenous leaders and groups opposed to the hydropower plans in Sarawak.

 

Even before the conference started, Peter Kallang the chairman of SAVE Rivers, was barred from attending a pre-conference workshop despite paying $1,750 to participate. According to a Kallang he was not allowed to attend due to letters he wrote criticizing the IHA for excluding affected indigenous people and cooperating with the Sarawak government.

 

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Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah on Wednesday defended his plan to clear the province’s protected forests, saying it is necessary to develop the province and that it would not affect the 1.2 million hectares of forests that some environmentalists have claimed it would. “We have to clarify that the amount of 1.2 million hectares is not true,” Zaini told reporters following a meeting with a number of environmentalists at the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday.

 

The governor said that the spatial planning bylaw draft proposed by his administration said that it would only convert 119,202 hectares of the nature sanctuary area (Kawasan Suaka Alam), nature preservation area (Kawasan Pelestarian Alam), protected forest, production forest and limited production forest areas, into other utilization areas. The Forestry Ministry, however, only recommended a conversion of 79,850 hectares for other utilization areas, he explained.

 

Kiki Taufik from Greenpeace Indonesia said that he appreciated the governor’s clarification but that some areas,including the primary forest and peatlands in the forest-clearing moratorium map, overlapped with other utilization areas, as stated in the map released by the Aceh administration.

 

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Over the past three years RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests and the FAO have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th, 16th and 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Centuries of deforestation have turned Spain's forests into barren scrublands, making them vulnerable to erosion. But volunteers are working to revive the landscape and protect local water sources. Source: DW.DE

The Housing Industry Association (HIA,) has elected Ron Dwyer as its new national president. Source: Timberbiz

The forest deal has descended into more chaos with the revelation that the proposed boundaries have not yet been finalized and that the Greens may be targeting other states. Source: Timberbiz