The federal government has benefited a $4million grant from United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) to help it reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, the Minister of Environment, Hadiza Mailafia, has disclosed. This followed the...
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TRUST |
12 years 1 month ago
Efforts to secure land ownership for tribal people in one of India’s poorest states are bolstering their economic security in the face of climate-induced hardships, and helping conserve farmland and forest. In the hamlet of Kharibandh in Ganjam, a coastal district in the eastern state of Orissa (...
Forestry Commmission UK |
12 years 1 month ago
The Government has announced it will implement a host of the forestry sector’s own recommendations to boost sustainable forestry and the green economy in its response to the Forestry Regulation Task Force published today, 27 March 2012. The Task Force identified more than 40 ways to make it easier...
Peruvian Times |
12 years 1 month ago
Environment Ministers from eight South American countries are meeting for a two day summit, starting Tuesday, to discuss actions to protect the Amazon rain forest, Peru’s state news agency Andina reported. The summit, which was inaugurated by Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Roncagliolo,...
OpenPR |
12 years 1 month ago
A recent report in the Financial Times has provided a boost for the forestry investment industry, as it outlines how timber demand could increase by 55 per cent by 2050, according to FRA. Bainbridge Island, WA, March 29, 2012 - A recent report in the Financial Times has provided a boost for the...
Eureka Alert |
12 years 1 month ago
With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical forest. The 'State of the Congo Basin Forests 2010' report launched in Douala, Cameroon, at the Annual meeting of the Congo Basin Forest...
IPP Media |
12 years 1 month ago
This week Gerald Kitabu interviewed HAKIARDHI Senior Programme Officer Cuthbert Tomitho on public awareness and benefits accrued from the National Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Excerpts:
Liberian Observer |
12 years 1 month ago
According to the Liberia Social Audit Report of 2011, more than 1,084,912 hectares of forestland have been allocated by the Liberian government to logging operations as indicated by available statics. In addition to areas allocated to logging operations, other concessions allocated to...
Market Watch |
12 years 1 month ago
Funds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46,000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the 64-property estate, formerly owned and managed by Gunns Limited. The...
ABC Net |
12 years 1 month ago
CSIRO Honorary fellow and retired chief scientist, Dr Sadanandan Nambier, told over 200 delegates at the full day conference titled 'Precision Forestry in Action' that the challenge now was learning how to forest in a sustainable way to match the global exponential wood demand. "You have to...
Trust |
12 years 1 month ago
The government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in a measure aimed at conserving the country’s forest resources and combating the effects of climate change. Philip Ngole Ngwese, the country’s minister of forestry and wildlife, recently announced the suspension of licenses...
AllAfrica |
12 years 1 month ago
After months of rumours, it's official: Danzer has sold its industrial logging operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Effective February 23rd, its subsidiary Siforco (which holds logging rights to around 2,1 million hectares of forest) was ceded to American-owned Groupe Blattner...
Fiji Times Online |
12 years 1 month ago
THINK of your future generations. Members of the media were told to spare a thought for the future of their children and implement programs that would safeguard their natural resources. The consultant for the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) policy, Dr Sean...
NC Guyana |
12 years 1 month ago
A Technical team from Ghana visiting Guyana met with Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud to learn more about its Chainsaw Milling Project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Forestry Training Centre Inc., with oversight by the Guyana’s Forestry...
ForestTalk |
12 years 1 month ago
There is a new joint council, called the Haida Gwaii Management Council, that has been established between the Haida and the British Columbia government to govern the forest management of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). The new council’s first decision has been to...
Philstar |
12 years 1 month ago
Many of us are wondering: what is the latest on the total log ban? All the stakeholders involved here have been quiet, and the newspapers can’t get enough of the current impeachment proceedings. Now with more than 20 hearings, the public is fed with little morsels of new information on this...
Government of Ghana |
12 years 1 month ago
The Japanese government is providing 7.8 million dollars to finance a special training programme on Geographical Information System and forestry inventory-taking under Ghana’s forest preservation programme.
China News Service |
12 years 1 month ago
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has embarked on a program to build capacity in mapping land/forest cover in Fiji using very high resolution satellite images, according to SPC Regional Community Forester Jalesi Mateboto on Thursday. The program has three phases consisting of both...
Silicon Republic |
12 years 1 month ago
Celestial Green Ventures, a Dublin-based sustainable forestry development company, is preparing to create 30 new jobs, as a result of the global growth in green investments. Ireland's Green IFSC initiative has welcomed the news. Celestial Green Ventures develops REDD+ forestry projects from which...
NewsWire CA |
12 years 1 month ago
TORONTO, April 5, 2012 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company") (TSX:TRE) announced today that the Continued Listings Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has determined to delist the Company's common shares effective at the close of market on May 9, 2012.