Environmentalists are challenging the plans of a S.C.-based biotechnology firm to grow genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in the South, saying the fast-growing Australian species could spread uncontrollably. ArborGen LLC won federal permits in May to plant 330 acres of a eucalyptus hybrid in...
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Charlotte Observer |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
IPS News |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) - "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of...
Forestry Nepal |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
DFID in its conceptual frameworks of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) defines five types of asset: human capital, social capital (the ability to draw on support through membership of social groups), natural capital, physical capital, and financial capital for achieving poverty...
The Norwegian Council of Africa |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Kampala (Uganda) - Uganda’s tobacco industry is spawning an environmental disaster, as farmers turn to fruit trees for wood fuel to cure the tobacco leaves. Driving through tobacco growing areas, outside the Murchison Falls National Park one barely encounters natural forests. The native trees...
Fachhochschule Eberswalde |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Analysis of the Implementation of Horse Applications within Forestry Operations in the German-Polish Border Region Horse applications always had a huge meaning in forestry. Its suitability for the labour in the forest and the ability to fulfil multiple tasks made the horse to the human’s main...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that forests which have undergone logging in the past, sometimes even twice, retain significant levels of biodiversity in Borneo. The researchers say these findings should push conservationists to protect more logged forests from being...
This Day Online |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, has said that the Federal Government is fast- tracking the implementation of sound policies to promote the development of green energy projects.
Tainted Green |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
What do bone fragments, cow patties and banana peels have in common? They all help gardens grow. When processed into a charcoal-like substance called biochar instead of being burned directly for fuel, researchers say organic materials could offset as much as 12 percent of the world's greenhouse...
African Capital Market News |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
British development finance institution, CDC (www.cdcgroup.com) has committed US$50 million to the GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund (GASFF), the first private equity fund to focus solely on sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa. The fund is to be run by the investment team of Global...
The Olympian |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A federal appeals court Friday cleared the way for logging to resume in an old growth forest reserve at a national forest in Oregon to protect northern spotted owl habitat from being lost to wildfire. In a 2-to-1 decision by a three-judge panel, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Greenwood Management |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The US and Brazil have signed an agreement whereby US$21 million (£13.5 million) of Brazilian debt will be put into a fund for the protection of the country’s rainforest and tropical ecosystems. The US has agreed that instead of paying back its debt, the money will be utilised to protect the...
The Christian Science Monitor |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Monster monsoon rains may have loosened the mud and rock that buried and killed more than 1,000 people in the northwestern Chinese Province of Gansu over the weekend, but the mudslide in Zhouqu was more than a natural disaster. Official records show that government-run lumber companies cut 313,000...
The Guardian |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
You report that "a British company's proposal to rent out one-fifth of Liberia's forests for carbon offsetting could have bankrupted the impoverished west African state" (UK firm's carbon offset deal 'could have bankrupted Liberia', 24 July). While this was certainly accurate reporting, it also...
EFI |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The many wildfires in Russia which are currently raging, in particular in the Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ryazan regions, follow an unprecedented heat wave with temperatures reaching past 38C. The devastation caused by the fires is showing to be disastrous, it has claimed over 50 lives and...
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Norway |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
World forests are in the spotlight for good reasons. Deforestation and forest degradation continues at an alarming rate. The multiple crises of climate, finance and food require the need for action to limit deforestation and to manage our forests sustainably. This is necessary in order to mitigate...
UNDP |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
UNDP has successfully finalized a seven-year biodiversity project that saved thousands of hectares of fragile forestland on a mountain range in northeast Tanzania, a region that the Government has nominated for recognition as a World Heritage Site...
Gambia Today |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Experts from various institutions including Forestry and Environment, Community Forest Organizations, Timber Re-export Association and other relevant stakeholders Tuesday gathered at Baobab Beach Hotel in Kololi to address the issue of deforestation and climate change by planting one million trees...
Forest Talk |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Last year, the province of British Columbia budgeted $60 million for fighting forest fires, but ended up spending $400 million. This year, the province lowered its firefighting budget to $52 million, however it is currently spending almost $6 million a day while 400 wildfires are burning their way...
RUNA |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Timber industry is becoming more and more innovative with increasing amount of advanced technologies and machinery being involved. Russia is to construct 5 modern breeding and seed centers using Lannen Plant Systems technology (Finland). Thus, new centers will appear in the Moscow, Voronezh,...
Kieteur News Online |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Guyana’s efforts to draw attention to the value of standing forests in the climate change arena is drawing attention from peer countries facing similar challenges. The Democratic Republic of the Congo which is home to the Congo Basin has sent a representative of their Government to study Guyana’s...