RRI, Oxfam Dialogue Highlights Linkages between Forestry, Climate Change and Food Security Issues9 September 2011: The Tenth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue, which convened from 7-8 September 2011, in The Hague, the Netherlands, focused on common approaches to dealing with the challenges of food security and climate change.
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Valuing the trees through the forestHow do you value an ecosystem? Putting a dollar value on natural systems such as forests has long beset economists.
Forests provide “non-use values,” such as the pleasure of knowing that a natural system exists, and recreational values, such as hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing. But recently, ecologists have also sought to value a broader set of “ecosystem services,” or the goods and services that ecosystems provide to a market economy.
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Sustainable development goals to follow the millennium development goals?NEW DELHI: The meeting was meant to review the work done two decades after the famed Rio summit or the UN meet on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
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European forest sector calls for genuine common policyIt is urgent to act internationally to protect forests, which are guardians of the climate, protect soils and biodiversity, and play a crucial role in the water cycle, according to participants in a conference on ‘European and global forests: Which way for the future?’.
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PEFC and Scottish Woodlands Score UK FirstJohn Paterson, Wood Purchasing Manager at Egger UK said "We were delighted to take the first deliveries of privately grown PEFC round wood from Scottish Woodlands.
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Managing Congo Basin Forests - a Regional Approach for a Regional ResourceWashington — The Congo Basin forest ecosystem is the world's second largest moist tropical forest, second only to the Amazon, and represents about one quarter of the globe's remaining closed canopy forest.
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Are sustainability indicators appropriate for planted forests?EFI’s new Discussion Paper, Are MCPFE Indicators Suitable for Planted Forests?, analyses the value of indicators for assessing sustainable forest management in the context of cultivated forests.
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Think Tank Warns About Flaws in Sustainable Forestry SchemeThe UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development has issued a warning that tropical countries participating in REDD+ schemes, whereby they get compensated for protecting their forests to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation, could fail to reap social and environmental benefits.
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1st APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Forestry release Beijing Statement on Forests and Forestry
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Effectiveness of Strict vs. Multiple Use Protected Areas in Reducing Tropical Forest Fires: A Global Analysis Using Matching MethodsProtected areas (PAs) cover a quarter of the tropical forest estate. Yet there is debate over the effectiveness of PAs in reducing deforestation, especially when local people have rights to use the forest.
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The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity
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REDDy – Set – Grow: Financial leaders call for investors-friendly forest-carbon market at UNEP FI report launchLeading financial institutions upped the ante on their future role in mitigating climate change as they called for more effective forest-carbon regulations on the occasion of a UNEP FI report launch at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European headquarters in London.
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Africa Forest Restoration Can Protect Food Security, Group SaysSept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Restoring and preserving dry-land forests can help provide food and fertilizer on small farms and prevent the recurrence of famine in Kenya and other African countries, a research group said.
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From illegal logger to conservationistMANILA, Philippines — Expedito Vanzuela, 59, was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of Maasin, the capital city of Southern Leyte, where he grew up.
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Iwokrama, REDD attract CIFOR Director General to Guyana Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Frances J. Seymour, is in Guyana to live her dream of embarking on an excursion to Iwokrama which she has for decades longed to visit.
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Will REDD conserve natural forests and protect local livelihoods?This blog was written by an intern in GBMI’s Europe office, Antoni Michael
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Rapporteur Highlights Abuses of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Due to Extractive Industries20 September 2011: The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, addressed the 18th session of the UN Human Rights Council, held from 12-30 September 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland, and presented his report focusing on extractive industries operating within or near ind
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Southern Leyte farmers show how to manage forestsOne day in April, Florentino Saludo led a team of 19 men in trekking through the forest of Sitio Canlugoc in Lunas, Maasin, Southern Leyte, with a mission in mind: to cut trees.
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Brazil Shares Lessons with Africa on Incentives for Sustainable Forestry Management
Providing Country(ies): Brazil
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Seven Norwegian MPs in Tanzania to learn about climate change
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International Conference on Multipurpose Forest Management under Changing ConditionsWhen: Nov 23 - 25, 2011
Where: Nanning, Guangxi, China
Organized By: Guangxi University & the Experimental Center of Tropical Forestry, CAF
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Q and A: Forests and ClimateReading about declining forests, the problem seems overwhelming. So I’m wondering: What can I do at a personal level?
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Compensatory afforestation has not worked, says a new studyA new study supported by the Green Party of Germany finds that compensatory afforestation has not taken off in many cases and forest conservation rules have helped industry more than environment.
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Fuzzy forest framing favours fallacies
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Japan approves 4 forestry CDM projects(1)
Host country: Nicaragua
Project Name: South CDM reforestation project in Nicaragua
Activities Summary: reforestation of native species to the former pasture has declined by over-harvesting (area: 813ha)
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Ministry seeks funding for environmental programmesThe Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment needs US$430 million to fund programmes over the next five years that aim to manage natural resources and the environment in regards to socio-economic development.
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Beijing Statement on Forests and Forestry--APECBeijing, China, September 7, 2011 - Recognizing the role of resource and energy constraints, climate change, loss of biological diversity, poverty, and food insecurity, APEC Ministers Responsible for Forestry released a statement to support green growth, sustainable forest management and rehabili
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Global Effort Aims to Restore 150 Million Hectares of Deforested LandA global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 is being launched in Bonn, Germany.
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), continues to invest in Guyana’s forestry sectorThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization country representative Dr. Lystra Fletcher-Paul said this is aimed at addressing local needs and national priorities which reflect internationally agreed principles.
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Finns contest “worst” sustainable forestry record claimA Finnish forests executive has dismissed an environmental group’s report which listed Finland as having the world’s worst sustainable forestry management record.
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We are losing our natural forests to tree plantations yet on paper, all is well because these plantations are considered ‘forests’.
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Dr. Peter Kolb discusses Sustainable Forestry, German-styleHow German the sustainable forest management (SFM) system is recognized by the US - spend the time to watch - and have a lough!
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Ghana's Forestry Commission (FC) has revealed that a Review Committee is being set up for upward review of the country's Timber Rights Fee (TRF), popularly known as timber fees meant for the state. Since 2005, the commission has not revised the TRF, necessitating the review.
TRF is rent that timber companies pay for their concessions annually. When the TRF is reviewed upwards, more revenue will be earned from the numerous timber companies operating in Ghana.
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Forests can feed world’s hungry and over-exploitation for timber must be curbed – UN26 October 2011 – Forests can play an even greater role in feeding the world with products ranging from vitamin-rich leaves to fruits and roots, a United Nations-backed international consortium said today, calling on governments to invest more in sustainable forest
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Call Issued for Civil Society Organization Observers to the CIFsOctober 2011: The organization RESOLVE has published a call for applications for non-profit Civil Society Organization (CSO) Observers to the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), to serve for a two-year term, beginning in January 2012.
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UNFCCC Publishes Submissions on REDD+ Methodological Guidance19 October 2011: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published views (FCCC/SBSTA/2011/MISC.7) on methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon
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Multimedia exhibit showcases sustainable management of forest resourcesTACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, October 22 (PIA) -- A three-day audio-visual/photo exhibit dubbed “The Philippine Forests: The Before and What Now?” was conducted on October 14 to 16 at the La Plaza, Tiendesitas Frontera Verde, Pasig City.
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Guidelines on participatory forest inventory
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Could a Forest be Worth More than a Gold Mine?Yerevan, Armenia–As Armenia was celebrating twenty years of independence in September, local and international experts came together to discuss youth, maturity, and transitions at the TEDx Yerevan event on September 24, 2011.
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Transparency Report Card urges stakeholders to ensure tranparency in forest managementThe 2010 Annual Transparency Report Card has recommended to stakeholders to lend support in ensuring transparent and accountable forest governance in the management of Ghana’s natural forest resources for present and future generations.
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First Nations want to dissolve Two Feathers Forest Products initiativeTwo Feathers Forest Products is a partnership formed in 2008 between Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, Pikangikum First Nation, Eagle Lake First Nation, and the Wood Tech Group from Finland with the goal of supportin
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Japan – The rising sun for carbon marketsJapan has exemplary carbon credentials. It is amongst the most energy and carbon efficient economies in the world, and one of its most beautiful cities gave its name to the UN’s Kyoto Protocol.
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Korea to plant millions of trees in ChinaCHANGWON ― Over the next five years, Korea will channel 3 billion won ($2.6 million) to plant millions of trees along the border areas of China and Mongolia to prevent the expansion of yellow dust storms here.
Toward that end, the Korea Forest Service (KFS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday with the two neighboring states on the sidelines of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) conference in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.
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100,000 community foresters to help green IndiaAgartala : India will engage 100,000 educated youths to execute an ambitious Green India Mission (GIM) which seeks to increase the country's forest cover to 33 percent from 20 percent within 10 years, says a top forest official.
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Draft law proposes steps to halt deforestationKARACHI, Nov 3: A revised version of the decades-old forest act suggests critical changes in key government powers to protect what little is left of forests, including the establishment of a settlement committee to determine the status of land, measures to ensure community participation, increase
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Interpol, U.N. to train police in REDD host countriesInterpol and the U.N.’s main environmental arm are join forces to help rainforest countries prevent land grabs motivated by carbon trading, and take action against illegal logging.
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Latin American partners awarded for sustainable forestry and microfinanceOikocredit partners in Guatemala and Bolivia received awards for excellence in their operations. One successfully cares for the environment and generates jobs, while the other contributes to community development through microfinance.
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African Countries Are Pointing the Way to Sustainable Forestry Management
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Collective Action for Sustainable ForestryThe article examines the efforts for collective action of ten village communities in the state of Orissa to manage their local forest resources from an institutional perspective.
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Master of Sustainable Forest Management
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Southwest Alberta groups release new recommendations for sustainable forest managementToday sees the release of a new report, Sustainable Forests, Sustainable Communities: The Future of Alberta’s Southwestern Forests.
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THE FIRST tropical rainforest in the world to be certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards for sustainable forest management is in Sabah, Malaysia.
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New approaches to sustainable forest management: a study of service innovation in conserving forestry resourcesSustainability has been a primary concern for the forestry professionals. This paper is concerned with the continuing evolution of approaches to monitor sustainable forest management.
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Standards set for forest managementThe Government set out its standard for sustainable forest management in a new publication today (Thursday 3 November 2011).
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Sustainable Forest Management and Carbon in Tropical Latin America: The Case for REDD+ This review paper assesses the economic, governance and technical conditions that shape forest management in tropical Latin America with particular regard to efforts to reduce forest-based carbon emissions.
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State level Workshop on Decentralised Forest Governance: Beyond JFMWhen: Oct 14 - 15, 2011
Where: Bhubaneswar, India
Organized By: Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC)
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£20m for farming and forestry businessesA new £20 million fund to help rural businesses increase profits and reduce their impact on the environment has been launched today by Agriculture Minister Jim Paice.
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Improving forest peoples tenure rights reduces poverty and improves forest conditions, says new studyWhile Asia’s rapid growth has lifted millions out of poverty, persistent pockets still remain in areas beyond the embrace of development.
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Forestry needs to spend international funding more quickly, efficiently Policy makers and practitioners need to find ways to spend international funding for forestry projects more quickly and efficiently to show that they can be implemented and benefit local communities, which will bring more political and bigger financial support as new climate funds flow in.
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Irish Farmers Are Turning Their Attention to Forestry A growing number of farmers in the Republic of Ireland are considering converting their farmland into a forest area, claims UK-based information portal (http://www.timberinvestments.co/).
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FORESTS AND FORESTRY IN THE GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION TO 2020In the 12 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous changes in nearly every aspect.
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China spends 1.5 bln USD foreign funding in forestry by 2010China has spent a total of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars of foreign loans and grants on its forestry sector by the end of last year since the country started international cooperation on forestry development in 1985, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) announced Tuesday.
The foreign funding, together with 8.7 billion yuan (about 1.37 billion U.S.dollars) of domestic funds, has helped develop a total of 5.82 million hectares of artificial afforestation and increased standing timber volume by 550 million cubic meters in China, said the SFA.
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SCIENTISTS WARN B.C. MINING RUSH WOULD HARM ALASKA AND B.C. SALMON, CLEAN WATER
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Survey on deforestation and governance by APNEGThe Asia Pacific Network for Environmental Governance (APNEG) invites readers to participate in their survey. The survey is on Governance and economic incentives for reducing the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change.
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Nepalese make money grow on treesThe story of forests and payments for not cutting them in Nepal began in 2003 when the Dutch government funded research on how communities could teach living to conserve forest for the trees can absorb the carbon dioxide released from burning biofuels.
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Bamboo methodology opens for public comments
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North America’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative Forest Standard Endorsed by PEFCSustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) Inc. announced today its forest certification standard has once again met the rigorous third-party assessment of the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
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Sustainable Forestry Draft Report Proposes Local Land Use ChangesThe Sustainable Forestry Council, which was created by the Sustainable Forestry Act of 2009 (SB 549), has released a draft report on a “no net loss of forests” p
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Forest Tourism - A Green Path Toward Sustainable Forestry
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Celebrating Sustainable Forest ManagementArborGen recently celebrated the planting of its 10 billionth tree seedling. To celebrate, the company planted a ceremonial tree at its new headquarters, which is being constructed in Summerville, S.C.
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The seeds have been planted, now we're looking to growThe Trees of Knowledge™ program is back for 2012 and will award one eco-conscious school a complete, customized outdoor classroom, valued at $20,000.
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Violent teak forests dispute resolvedA long-running violent dispute between the world’s largest teak producer and Indonesian forest communities has been resolved, resulting in the recertification of two Indonesian forest districts by the Forest Stewardship Council
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Old Growth Forests of Northeast China
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Trees Before Poverty at DurbanNew Report Reveals World Bank Forestry Scheme Ignored Deforestation Emissions Data
Donor Aid Money Being Misused
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Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.
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Community Forestry Unfazed by Political TurmoilGODAVARI, Nepal, Nov 21, 2011 (IPS) - Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it.
"We’re doing well anyway," Ganesh Bahadur Silwal, 65, general secretary of the Godavari community forestry group, tells an international audience seated in an arc around him in a concrete hall in the scenic Godavari valley, 14 km southeast of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.
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Laos: Carbon reduction projects get underwayThe Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) is cooperating with the Forestry Department to implement the Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests Programme (LEAF) in Laos.
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New method can aid rainforest, help loggers(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduced-impact logging (RIL) in an Amazon rainforest generated profits while emitting a small fraction of carbon compared with total forest clearing, a University at Albany study concludes.
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Creating jobs while cutting carbon emissionsIN THE floodplain forests of the Danube River, a short distance from the Slovak-Hungarian border town of Komárno, a small NGO is attempting to harness traditional methods of working with nature to stabilise a disrupted ecosystem and combat climate change.
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US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research WASHINGTON, – U.S. Forest Service scientists contributed to a far-reaching report that will help land managers make decisions about how forests are best managed to help offset carbon emissions, including the use of forest biomass for energy.
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Ethiopia Plans $150 Billion in Spending Including Carbon CutsNov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia is planning to spend $150 billion over two decades on economic development, including investments to lower the country’s carbon emissions, according to a government document.
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SCA study shows: Children want to spend more time in the forestsNovember 20 we are celebrating UN’s Universal Day of Children, and this year is also the International Year of Forests. Consequently SCA takes the chance to talk more about what children really want: To spend and play more time in the fresh air and the forests.
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China’s Appetite for Wood Takes a Heavy Toll on ForestsMore than half of the timber now shipped globally is destined for China. But unscrupulous Chinese companies are importing huge amounts of illegally harvested wood, prompting conservation groups to step up boycotts against rapacious timber interests. by william laurance - 360.yale.edu
In Chinese folklore, a dragon symbolizes strength. It is an apt icon for a nation whose rise as an economic superpower has been nothing short of meteoric.
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Inclusion of Forestry Matters in Policy and Decision Making Process: NFCShri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding.
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Reporting the Results of Forestry Activities: Compliance with Section 86 of the Forest Planning and Practices Regulation
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India manages to stem deforestation: Minister Proving the outcry that forests are shrinking due to increased urbanisation, industrialisation and rehabilitation, India has set its record straight with a modest increase in its forest cover.
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Good Governance of Land and Natural Resources: Balancing local and global interestsThis is a seminar report. The seminar was part of the international course on Local Governance & Rural Decentralization, organized on a yearly basis by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI).
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The plan was simple: Log and sell as much dead pine as possible before it decayed or burned. But the environmental costs of the large-scale salvaging of Interior forests are still being tallied...
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'Dead' pine forests very much alivePhil Burton calls this place a jungle.
It's not the tropical Amazonian rainforest or even B.C.'s temperate rainforest, but a stand of lodgepole pine located off the Pelican Forest Service Road about an hour's drive southwest of Prince George.
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Forest denizens struggle in clearings
Salvage logging of B.C.'s Interior lodgepole pine forests is having major consequences for wildlife by eliminating vast stretches of habitat used for activities such as feeding, hiding and keeping warm or cool.
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Fiery debate surrounds benefits of salvage operations
Logging B.C.'s beetle-killed pine forests can, in theory, reduce the risk of a wildfire.
But when fire ecologist Bob Gray visits a logging site, he can see just the opposite: a heightened fire risk because of so much uneconomic wood left on the ground.
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Alberta making progress against the mountain pine beetleAerial surveys show Alberta is making progress in its fight against mountain pine beetle infestations in some parts of the province.
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Asian forest agency due in 2013Korea will try to successfully launch the first Asian international agency by 2013 proposed by the country, the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO) to be based in Seoul.
The Korea Forest Service (KFS) said Monday that the country will put forth its best efforts to realize its agreement with ASEAN member states last week on the establishment of AFoCO.
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Saving the Amazon, from forest floor upJust three years ago, the manmade fires here were so fierce smoke would blot out the Amazon sky, turning the days dark. Towering rainforest trees exploded in flames, their canopies cleared to let pasture grow for cattle.
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Forests cannot be sustained if people are hungryAgriculture will most likely be included in future negotiations on global warming, experts said at the U.N. climate change talks in Durban, which may help address one of the top drivers of deforestation amid a spike in demand for farmland.
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Forest programme to benefit millionsA 10-year, $233-million plan to help a billion people around the world whose livelihoods depend on trees and forests, was announced on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 17) in Durban on Sunday.
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Nedbank unit in forest deal Capital and Face the Future have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop sustainable forestry projects in Africa.
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Japan lends weight to forest mgt in LaosThe government of Japan has provided grant assistance of more than 475 million yen (about 4,6 million EUR) for the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Forest Information Management Programme in Laos.
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