The protection and sustainable management of Europe’s forests requires a stable and efficient platform for coherent policy development and implementation. Therefore, European ministers responsible for forests made the historical decision yesterday to launch negotiations for a Legally Binding...
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International Forest Industries |
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FAO |
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10 June 2011, Rome - An FAO pilot project that has proved a great success in combating desertification is to be rolled out more widely in an attempt to turn African drylands back into fertile land.
Guardian |
13 years 1 month ago
Imagine if your government suddenly passed laws that sold off the street your family had lived on for generations to an international property developer. Your land was to be "converted" into flats in the name of national economic development; bulldozers would soon be moving in to demolish your...
Indepth News |
13 years 1 month ago
BONN (IDN) - Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations.
Science Magazine |
13 years 1 month ago
Mongabay |
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Mongabay |
13 years 1 month ago
South Sudan’s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS Engineering. At current rates, Mount Dongotomea, located in South Sudan’s most biodiverse ecosystem, could be completely stripped of tree cover by 2020.
ePrints |
13 years 1 month ago
Maguire, Rowena (2010) The international regulation of sustainable forest management : doctrinal concepts, governing institutions and implementation. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Good News Finland |
13 years 1 month ago
Finnish forest product company UPM has signed a conservation easement agreement with the State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on 76,000 hectares of UPM-owned forest land in Northern Minnesota. The agreement secures the future economic and recreational use of the company's forests...
Bernama |
13 years 1 month ago
KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia received RM43 million in official development aid (ODA) from the European Union (EU) last year to promote legal timber trade and sustainable forest management. In a statement Friday, the EU Delegation to Malaysia said the EU was also funding projects...
Portal ANGOP |
13 years 1 month ago
Brazzaville - The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, defended on Friday the establishment of partnerships between the sustainable forest management and the development of the countries located in the three tropical forest basins of the world. The Congolese statesman said...
AllAfrica |
13 years 1 month ago
Greenpeace today reacted to two recent cases of social conflicts between logging companies and local communities that have reportedly resulted in violent police interventions, arrests and reported abuses. Greenpeace is calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo' government to commit to upholding...
Climate-I |
13 years 1 month ago
30 May 2011: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a sustainable forest management project in Cambodia, which aims to promote forest conservation, benefit the rural poor, and contribute to climate change mitigation.
DEFRA |
13 years 1 month ago
The true value of nature can be shown for the very first time thanks to groundbreaking research by hundreds of UK scientists. The research forms the basis of a major new independent report – the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA) – which reveals that nature is worth billions of pounds to...
Reuters |
13 years 1 month ago
Simon Kasagana knows his meager livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has little choice but to destroy it. He used to be a nursing assistant, but the pay was too low to live off, so he began cutting trees for a local businessman,...
Bloomberg |
13 years 1 month ago
Togo, Nigeria and Ghana have the biggest rates of deforestation out of 65 nations, according to a study described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests.
Nature |
13 years 1 month ago
A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one forest are just cut down in another to provide people with the resources they would have foregone. But a study by an international team of...
SciDev |
13 years 1 month ago
Alien plant species can significantly reduce biodiversity but they can also boost an ecosystem's biomass production, on average by more than half, according to a global analysis of scientific literature.
Agrometerology |
13 years 1 month ago
There has recently been quite some discussion on the REDD planning, with REDD the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. This also applies to Indonesia and India, where we live. A PLEA FOR A REDD plus plus APPROACH (with a massive participatory raising and...