Seven major bilateral and multilateral funding initiatives have recently been created to support the new concept of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. This has been proposed as a major international mitigation strategy, seen by many to also hold considerable promise for...
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Gulf News |
vor 14 Jahre 3 Wochen
Agua Bendita, Mexico: Local landowners collectively running a small lumber yard in the pine forests of central Mexico say they are making profits from logging and cutting carbon emissions at the same time. Eleven communities share one sawmill in the town of Agua Bendita, processing planks for...
Rights and Resources |
vor 14 Jahre 3 Wochen
This study presents the results of recent studies of community forest management in Mexico in the belief that it can inspire other countries and peoples to follow similar paths. Devolving rights over forest land and its resources, including carbon, to the local level is not a panacea for...
Daily Pioneer |
vor 14 Jahre 3 Wochen
A two-day expert consultation on ‘operational strategy for sustainable forest management’ was begun at Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) in Bhopal on Friday. The consultation was graced by the delegates from Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF); Principle Chief Conservator of...
The Times Colonist |
vor 14 Jahre 4 Wochen
Unnoted last week amid the political confusion, British Columbians lost a venerable institution. After a proud, 80-year history, the research branch of the Ministry of Forests and Range was disbanded. It is ironic, in the government's self-declared Year of Science, that it should dismantle such...
Indigenous Portal |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Anima Pushpa Toppo, Jharkhand Jungle Bachao Andolan: India became a democratic Republic in 1950. During the Constituent Assembly debate Jaipal Singh of Jharkhand expressed his doubt about the sincerity of the leaders of the newly formed nation-state of India. Even then he promised to cooperate...
Timber Community |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
A chronic timber shortage has hit Kenya forcing the country to turn to expensive imports from neighboring countries. The fort main plantation species such as cypress and pine, which accounted for over 80 per cent of the country's entire plantation area, are now at risk of extinction as their...
Reuters |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
REUTERS- Markets for sustainable products have expanded significantly over the last five years, growing much faster than those for conventional products, according to the State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) Review 2010, published last week.
IGREC |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
REDD has the potential for creating serious inter-community conflicts that could ignite explosive violence among tribes that have historically been antagonistic. Many tribal communities in heavily populated tropical countries have disputes with neighboring communities over control over...
Department of Natural Resources |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Provincial Sustainable Forest Management Strategy (2.8 MB) Appendices Description of Activities For Past Five Years (1.5 MB) Newfoundland Forest Service Headquarters Organizational Chart (464 KB)
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
The Congo Basin is rich in forests and poor in cash, which makes it hard to resist offers of easy money from loggers. Carbon credits could, in theory, help save the forests, but the region's historically low rates of deforestation (and governance) make it difficult to prove you're saving trees...
ENPI-FLEG |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Discrepancies in the system of the Russian forest legislation is the main reason for that. This was the common opinion of participants of the Roundtable organized by WWF at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in early November 2010. Representatives of the Russian legislative bodies,...
Mail Tribune |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Calling them the forgotten forests, a panel of scientists say cool-weather rainforests like those in Western Oregon store more carbon per acre than tropical rainforests. "We are all aware that tropical rainforests are important, that their deforestation is a major contributor to greenhouse gas...
Government of the Philippines |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Cagayan de Oro City (22 November) -- There's now hope for the Philippines to reverse the continued destruction of what little is left of its forested mountains. Authors of 13 different bills filed in the House of Representatives that seek to reform the country's forest management laws have...
New Scientist |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
South America's tropical forests flourished when temperatures skyrocketed 56 million years ago. Could this mean that climate change will spare the Amazon? Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues excavated pollen and other plant remains...
Eureka Alert |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
In many developing countries, forest restoration at home has led to deforestation abroad, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The authors say their findings could have significant implications for ongoing efforts to protect the world's remaining...
Timber Community |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
About 20 percent of the land has been treated. A strong wood-products industry is key to getting rid of thousands of dead, bark beetle-infested trees that threaten to tip onto roads, power lines and campsites or harm watersheds around the Western United States, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom...
News Sierra Leone |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
The Guardian |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
A series of ancient underwater etchings has been uncovered near the jungle city of Manaus, following a drought in the Brazilian Amazon. The previously submerged images – engraved on rocks and possibly up to 7,000 years old – were reportedly discovered by a fisherman after the Rio Negro, a...
Timber Community |
vor 14 Jahre 1 month
Finnish newspapers report that the machinery contractors association is angered over the sudden shutdown by forestry company UPM. The Confederation has called UPM subcontractors to immediately stop the logging, which would be considered as unreasonable. UPM's purchasing director Pekka Rajala...