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RUNA | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

The Board of Directors of Arkhangelsk PPM has decided to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on March 9, 2011. As reported by the company, the meeting will be held in vote in absentia principle. The shareholders shall give their approval to major interrelated transactions.

National Geographic Action Atlas | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

Project Summary The Laojunshan Nature Reserve (LNR), located in the northwest of China’s Yunnan Province, is in the Three Parallel Rivers Region, which was named a World Heritage site in July 2003. Comprising four counties (Yulong, Jiangchuan, Weixi, and Lanping), each with different land...

Fiji Government | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

With financial and technical support from our regional and international development partners, Fiji has continued to further the implementation of Sustainable Forest Management. In 2007, the Government passed a new forest policy that has sustainable forest management as its foundation. In 2008...

Alert Net | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

Since the 2009 coup that overthrew the government of President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, the countryside of the lower Aguan Valley, a long embattled region and one of Central America's richest agricultural areas, has undergone a brutal rash of kidnappings, murders, detentions and intimidation.

Malya | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

The forestry sector said the government should implement plans on the classification of the country’s forests and on the adoption of watershed and ecosystem as well as conduct multi-sectoral community approaches to promote holistic and sustainable forestry activities. "Sustainable logging in...

The National Post | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

British Columbia is blessed by nature with a vast, ecologically rich forest estate that also has been a source of sustained economic wealth for more than a century. But today there are troubling signs that the most important of natural assets is facing challenges never before seen. The area of...

24dash | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

A note from the editor: Ms. Lucas is still continuing her misleading campaign... Why? Read here... Green MP Caroline Lucas today accused the Government of failing to take action to tackle the problem of illegal logging. Ms Lucas said the coalition's pledge to bring in measures to make the...

Forest Talk | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

The Canadian Institute of Forestry has launched a membership drive to reach out to potential new members. The Canadian Institute of Forestry is the national voice of forest practitioners. Formed in 1908, the Institute represents foresters, forest technologists and technicians, ecologists,...

Stabroek News | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

Almost nine per cent of the government’s planned expenditure in the 2011 national budget depends upon receipt of US$70M from Norway, under the MoU signed on November 9, 2009.  That is surely a risky strategy because there appears to be no fall-back position if the Norwegian money does not come,...

UN-FAO | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

2 February 2011, New York/Rome (FAO) - Millions of forest-dependant people play a vital role in managing, conserving, and developing the world's forests in a sustainable manner, but the outside world often underestimates their rights to use and benefit from local forest resources, says FAO's new...

Business Green | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

As with many environmentalists, the protests against the government's plans to sell off the bulk of the UK's forest estate have struck something of a nerve with me.

Hindustan Times | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

Asia is leading afforestation activity in the world with a significant contribution from India which is adding 300,000 hectares of forest every year, a senior UN official said. "I would highlight India, which still has important population growth. The forests in India are growing at 300,000

The Baltic Course | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

he London based Qatari news channel ''Al Jazeera English'' has aired an investigative report on Latvia's rapid deforestation, blaming state-owned joint-stock company Latvijas Valsts mezi (Latvian State Forests, LVM) on cutting down the country's forests.

OneWorld | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

A paradigm shift in global forest management is needed to halt tropical deforestation, said Global Witness at the start of the UN’s International Year of Forests. The status quo effectively legalises the destruction of natural forests by logging operations, subsidised by tax-dollars. Without...

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) are the norm in many developing country contexts. They often make up 80–90% of enterprise numbers and more than 50% of forest-related jobs. While there is little evidence that large-scale commercial forestry plays a substantial role in reducing poverty...

CIGAR | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

A key challenge to an effective strategy to Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is striking the delicate balancing act between avoiding deforestation while ensuring that those who depend on land uses that cause deforestation are assured of a means of livelihood. When it...

Reuters | vor 14 Jahre 2 months

REUTERS With their ability to soak up heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere, forests are front and center in international discussions about slowing climate change. But a growing chorus of researchers says the planet's trees have plenty more to offer the world beyond acting as sinks that inhale...

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