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Russian Forest Fire Hell Ride

Four Russian men volunteered to help their neighbours protect their homes from an approaching forest fire in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region.

As this video shows, the men had a close brush with death when they were trying to escape the village as the forest fire closed in around their car.

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Issue date: 
January 28th, 2010

Report: British Columbia to spent 50% of it's land for forest conservation

Nature, Carbon and Climate Change in British Columbia
by Dr. Jim Pojar; Commissioned by the Working Group on Biodiversity, Forests and Climate, an alliance of ENGOs including ForestEthics

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Issue date: 
27.01.2010/12:50

Kolumbien: Biosprit gefährdet Mensch und Natur

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UK government is still struggling to understand deforestation and illegal logging

Markus Sommerauer - Mi, 27/01/2010 - 11:25

"Cutting down the worlds forests is responsible for about a fifth of global carbon emissions, but what many people may not realise is that this is linked to the illegal trade in timber. This is a major problem for many timber-producing countries in the developing world. It not only causes environmental damage, but costs governments billions of dollars in lost revenue, often involving corruption and funds armed conflict."

Issue date: 
January 25, 2010

Forestry sector needs transparency to reduce risks of REDD

A new project aims to increase transparency in the forestry sector, an area long plagued by corruption and mismanagement.

The Forest Sector Transparency Report Card, launched by Global Witness, an environmental NGO, assesses 70 transparency indicators, evaluating the public availability of land use maps, logging contracts, and other forestry-related information in Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Peru. The effort will eventually be expanded to other countries.

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Mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the EU Forest Action Plan

The mid-term evaluation of the EU Forest Action Plan was presented at the 112th meeting of the Standing Forestry Commission (11-12 December 2009). The evaluation report has recently been made available on the DG Agriculture web-site. The study contains both an inventory of the implementation of the 18 Key Actions of the EU Forest Action Plan and an evaluation of its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency. It contains recommendations for the EU Forest Action Plan in the period until 2011.

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Issue date: 
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010

Japan: Saving the planet through its trees

Negotiators at the COP15 conference in Copenhagen didn't see eye to eye on much last month, but almost everyone agreed on one thing: To protect the planet we need to save its forests.

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