March 2011: In celebrations for the ninth Africa Environment Day, the African Union (AU) Commission, in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and local partners, highlighted the importance of sustainable forest management (SFM) for sustainable development and addressing climate...
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Climate-I |
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Forst Talk |
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Pacheedaht First Nation is the 14th First Nation to sign a new type of agreement that sees a percentage of forestry revenue returned directly to the community, announced Forests, Mines and Lands Minister Pat Bell today.
Mongabay |
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Stopping logging for timber export and conversion of forest for oil palm plantations would cost Papua New Guinea roughly $1.8 billion dollars from 2012 to 2025, but would significantly reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis published by an economist from the...
FoestEurope |
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Japan has initiated a Country-Led Initiative in support of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) to identify challenges of sustainable forest management and what needs to be done to integrate environmental, social and economic values of forests. FOREST EUROPE is co-organising the...
Paperindex Times |
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Graz, Austria, Mar 8, 2011 - International technology Group ANDRITZ showed favorable business development in the 2010 business year:
Ghana News |
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Juabeso (W/R), Feb. 26, GNA — The Juabeso District Manager of the Forestry Services Department, Mr. Clement Amo Omari, has stressed the need for a collaborative effort towards forest management and protection. He said there was an urgent need for the various assemblies, traditional...
The Western Star |
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CORNER BROOK — The essential elements of sustainable forest management in Newfoundland and Labrador are being learned and implemented in some South American countries. The creation of a criterion indicator program for monitoring and evaluating forest management in Canada is being adopted as...
Time |
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Pacific Forest |
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This comprehensive, groundbreaking report details the potential of sustainable forestry to protect and enhance forests worldwide, while fostering economic growth and ecological values. Whether you are a forestland owner, policy-maker, private investor or philanthropic grant-maker, "Capital...
Living Peru |
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Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Paavo Väyrynen, said there are important opportunities for expansion of trade and economic cooperation between Finland and Peru. The developing economy of Peru offers cooperation opportunities for Finnish companies particularly in natural...
CNBC |
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FREETOWN (Reuters Life!) - The slopes of Leicester Peak, a protected rainforest on a hill above Sierra Leone's capital, are a jumble of haphazard development and half-finished villas. Concrete buildings cluster against a tangle of trees and vines -- a construction site in a forest reserve that...
CIFOR Blogs |
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Jane Tarh Takang is the former Coordinator of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) West and Central Africa. She tells us about her experiences in gender and women empowerment in development in Africa. WOCAN is a US-based international network of...
Vietnam News |
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HA NOI — The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed an agreement with the Vietnamese Government yesterday, committing itself to a technical assistance partnership to develop the country's capacity in forest resources assessment.
Forests |
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Global Witness |
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Guyana has seen deforestation rates soar over the last year, despite the signing of an agreement with the Norwegian government aimed precisely at supporting a reduction in deforestation rates, said Global Witness today.
Survival International |
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Peru’s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peru’s government is aware that the illegal timber is being ‘laundered’ using ‘document falsification, timber extraction outside...
Manila Bulletin |
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MANILA, Philippines – A total logging ban would only worsen the rate of deforestation of the country's meager forest cover. Dr. Rex Victor Cruz, dean of the UP College of Forestry and Natural Resources in Los Banos and part of the UN Working Group on Climate Change team that won the 2007 Nobel...
The Ecologist |
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In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon More intensive beef production can limit deforestation in Brazil where the space used to rear cattle is ten times what you see in other countries, according to...
CIFOR |
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BOGOR, Indonesia (March 1, 2011). Women are the main users of forests in developing countries – gathering food and firewood – but they continue to be sidelined in how the forests are managed despite years of efforts to mainstream their involvement, experts said ahead of International Women's Day...
Mongabay |
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The Indian government has approved a bold plan to expand and improve the quality of its forests as a part of the nation's National Action Plan on Climate Change. The reforestation plan, dubbed the National Mission for a Green India (NMGI), will expand forests by five million hectares (over 12...