The National Trust could step in to save the Forestry Commission's English forests, which the Government wants to sell off.
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Horticulture Week |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
Fiji Government |
vor 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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...
CIFOR |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
This week the United Nations launches the International Year of Forests (IYF), and indeed 2011 begins with the future of the world’s tropical forests at a “tipping point”. Fortuitously, IYF is being launched at a moment when the stars are aligning for a step change in how forests are managed.
Yacount |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mohamed Loulichki stressed the need for taking measures to promote sustainable forest management in Africa through setting up a global funding mechanism. Speaking at the 9th UN forum on Forests (UNFF) on behalf of the African...
The National Post |
vor 13 Jahre 5 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...
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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 13 Jahre 5 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...
China Dialogue |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
24dash |
vor 13 Jahre 5 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...
The Timberland Blog |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) |
vor 13 Jahre 5 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...
Market Wire |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
SAINT-BENOÎT-DU-LAC, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Jan. 24, 2011) - An agreement between Natural Resources Canada and the Fiducie de recherche sur la forêt des Cantons-de-l'Est will help expand our understanding of forest conservation, restoration and production in the Eastern Townships.