In 1985, the rapidly growing amount of not-satisfactorily-restocked (NSR) land in B.C. forests became a crisis. This resulted in a joint provincial and federal $300-million funding plan, the Forest Resource Development Agreement (FRDA) that restocked many thousands of hectares.
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Salmon Arm Observer |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
The Globe and the Mail |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
The fire that destroyed the lumber mill in Burns Lake this winter was sudden and catastrophic, sending a small town into shock. Overnight, 250 jobs vanished. Imagine a blow that severe landing on a dozen different communities and you have a sense of what is coming in central and northern British...
Vancouver Sun |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
The recent auditor-general's report on government mismanagement of our forests should serve as a wake-up call to the people of British Columbia to demand transformation of forest governance and management. Healthy forests provide us with clean water and clean air. They store three-quarters of the...
Climate-I |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
March 2012: The Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Enhancing Environmental Services in Tropical Forests (REDDES) Programme of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has provided support to Guyana to develop a high-level decision support model for forestry.
Mongabay |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
Africa Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the conservation nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is facing a lawsuit by Kenya’s Samburu tribe over alleged unlawful evictions. The hearing, originally scheduled for January 23, has now been postponed to later this month.
SciDEV |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
Wapichan communities of Guyana, presented a proposal to the government of that country to give them the care of 1.4 million hectares of native forests. Its aim is to preserve and protect that area of industries that could threaten its biodiversity and natural resources.
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23 March 2012: The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the submissions by parties on issues identified in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 72 and appendix II, in particular on how to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and on robust and transparent national forest monitoring systems as...
Forest Talk |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
British Columbia has made an amendment to section 47.1 of their Forest Act that will allow private land to be removed from a woodlot. All potential private land removals will be at the discretion of the minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations (or a delegate determined by the...
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This document summarizes knowledge and experiences in forest management as a response to climate change, based on a literature review and a survey of forest managers. This is part of an FAO-led process to prepare climate change guidelines for forest managers. It examines climate change impacts on...
Blogs at Wall Street Journal |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
The long-running battle between Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant Indonesian paper company, is heating up again. But this time, there’s a new wrinkle: The two sides are being surprisingly nice to each other – at least for now.
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
Stora Enso successfully completes Eurobond tender offer. Stora Enso has successfully repurchased notes with nominal value EUR 336 820 000 from the 2014 bond issued in 2004 and tapped in 2009. The transaction is priced at an interpolated mid-swaps rate + 130 basis points and a yield of 2.396%, which...
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
This paper compares the historic German discourse on forest functions with the current international debate on ecosystem services and analyzes the factors that may have triggered or inhibited the development and the institutionalization of both underlying concepts and subordinate debates....
Saturday Monitor |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
Tension over land ownership is brewing in Ssemabable District as at least 15,300 people, said to be encroachers in the area, continue to ignore an eviction order by the police and district leaders. The residents, said to be mostly from the Bahima tribe in western Uganda, are currently living...
ForestTalk |
vor 12 Jahre 8 months
The Government of Canada presented their Budget today for 2012 and beyond. Here is the information from today’s budget for “Forestry Innovation and Market Development Support“. Economic Action Plan 2012 proposes $105 million over two years to support the continued transformation of the forestry...
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
21 March 2012: The proceedings of a joint workshop organized by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Montreal Process, FOREST EUROPE, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to discuss streamlining of global forest reporting, have been released.
Timber Community |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Future advancements in biorefinery are a focus of attention for most companies in the pulp and paper industry today. Those are the themes of the World Biorefinery conference. What should they invest in, what are the technological solutions, and what is of most economic interest? “This is an...
RISI |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
SEATTLE, WA, Mrz. 26, 2012 (RISI) - After five years, and repeated requests by clients, Dennis Neilson and I spent much of the last six months updating our in-depth look at investments in plantation forestry around the world. This was published in February 2012 as the Global Tree Farm Economics...
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
This report describes the approaches necessary for the measurement, monitoring and reporting of structure, biomass and carbon stocks in mangrove forests. Mangroves are coastal ecosystems providing numerous ecosystem services affecting both marine and terrestrial resources. In addition, they contain...
The Age |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
STATE-OWNED timber agency VicForests has been hit with court action by the Environment Department after it allegedly logged protected rainforest. The court battle relates to VicForests' logging operations in the Orbost Forest District in East Gippsland, where the Victorian Department of...
Global Witness |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Funding forest protection in developing countries poses numerous financial risks: from inefficient allocation through to mismanagement of funds, misappropriation and corruption. Financial flows from donors to developing countries under the REDD+ forest protection mechanism will need to increase...