The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering placing a levy on each Christmas trees sold in the United States, whether they were grown in the U.S. or whether they were imported. The levy would be collected and would be used to promote the sale of real trees over artificial ones. The...
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Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Timber Community |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Timberland and timber REIT (real estate investment trust ) investors continue to wade through "erroneous and underreported analysis in financial outlets" writes Forisk blog which is a forest economics research firm. In a recent article Weyerhaeuser , now structured as a REIT, was called the worst...
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Alberta is seeing signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetles, thanks to: the weather wisdom gained from B.C.’s mountain pine beetle fight an aggressive $250 million attack The mountain pine beetle can play a healthy role in a forest – by feeding on older pine trees,...
New York Times Blogs |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Many trees are private goods. If you own some, you can probably do whatever you want with them. As a rational economic actor, you can respond effectively to incentives. If the price of wood goes up, you can decide to chop your trees down and sell them.
GRIST |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
In the context of an overall bleak 2010 for the planet, forests offer a bright point for some celebration -- showing this sector as the area offering perhaps the best hope for continued progress in fighting climate change. Towards that end, here are the world's top five forest stories of the...
The Independent Online |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
State governments in Nigeria appear to have taken up a campaign to address the impact of the changing global climate. If the outcome of a series of presentations at a recent forum in Lagos is anything to go by, indications are that a basketful of adaptation and mitigation initiatives has either...
Radio New Zealand International |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
An Australian academic says feeding themselves will become very difficult for the majority of Papua New Guineans if more forests aren’t cleared for farmland. Ron Duncan says the comment was in response to a report by the PNG Forest Industries Association that looked at the country’s prospects...
IPS News |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
LIMA, Dec 27, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study. More...
AllAfrica |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Environmental conservation and protection has been one of the major challenges the world over. The green world has been attacked by both natural and artificial encroachers, leading to dangerous climatic changes, some of which have resulted in deadly disasters. Isaac Khisa looks back at 2010 and...
The Guardian |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
There's been nothing quite like it in the ancient Forest of Dean since the last time a Conservative government tried to privatise Britain's largest oak forest. In 1993, the threat to sell off 42 square miles of woodland between the rivers Severn and Wye in Gloucestershire was only repelled...
Business Day RSA |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
THE recent Cancun climate- change agreements’ fatal flaw is simple: faith in fickle markets. A year from now in Durban, the apparently unifying strategy of combining ever- broader emissions trading with a modicum of north-south aid to resolve contradictions between national blocs will again...
FAO |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
The forestry sector of Kyrgyzstan is confronted with several problems. Due to the lack of timber imports, overgrazing and population growth, the Kyrgyz forests are under pressure. The economic situation in the Kyrgyz forestry is unsatisfactory, especially the lack of financial resources and of...
Indian Express |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
BHUBANESWAR: Its jungles as well as protection staff under increasing attack, Forest Department of the State is all set to add local wisdom and intelligence to its protection measures this new year. It has proposed to add a new layer to its field staff to strengthen the mechanism. The...
Just Means |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
This year was the International year of Biodiversity. Next year has been declared the year of forests. The TEEB report that was released earlier this year finally put a monetary value on biodiversity services and the economic losses that could be incurred if protection is not prioritized....
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
In Bangladesh, the massive growth rate of population has intensified pressure on forest resources throughout the country. The forest coverage of Bangladesh is one of the lowest and the deforestation rate is the highest of any country in the world. In the Hill Tracts area of Eastern Bangladesh, a...
Daily Times |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi said on Saturday that the Ministry of Environment was implementing mega forestry projects in all the provinces for preservation and expansion of forest wealth in the country. He stated this at the concluding ceremony of the 2nd...
ALLAFRICA |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Climate change is no longer an abstract term or a scientific jargon with no local, humane touch. Scientists say the increasing change in climatic condition, with its devastating effects on the environment, is not only caused by huge industries or some remote factors, but also our lifestyles...
News Wire |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
OTTAWA, Dec. 30 /CNW/ - Recognized globally for its unmatched environmental leadership, Canada's forest products industry is entering the International Year of Forests with a return to profitability and a growing demand for its lumber, pulp and specialized papers produced from well-managed...
Mongabay |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
With commodity prices surging, lending to Brazilian farmers for tractors, harvesters and plows reached 8.2 billion reais ($4.8 billion) for the July through November 2010 period, a 64 percent increase since the same period last year and the fastest pace since 2004, reports Bloomberg.
Fox News |
vor 13 Jahre 6 months
Mexico City – Norway is providing Mexico with $15.3 million to fund environmental monitoring efforts aimed at reducing emissions of pollutants and slowing deforestation, the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat said.