The European Union is closing its doors to illegal timber exports. But unless we tackle unsustainable logging to satisfy domestic timber markets, their actions will little benefit forests, or the millions of poor people that live within them. Making timber sustainable requires the use of both...
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IIED |
13 years 6 months ago
Paper Index Times |
13 years 6 months ago
FINLAND, Jan 25, 2011 - The international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) granted its unqualified approval to Finland’s redrafted FSC standard on 21st January 2011. The new FSC standard can be adopted once a three-month transitional period has passed. Common ground on Finland’s national FSC...
Forest Talk |
13 years 6 months ago
The province of Ontario is proposing to protect woodland caribou habitat and protect economic growth in Northern Ontario. The environmentalists and forest companies who signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) are pleased to welcome the public consultations on woodland caribou...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 6 months ago
The results of the 2010 CPET (Central Point of Expertise on Timber) Review, published on 21st January, concluded that both PEFC (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) continue to deliver evidence of sustainability in compliance with the UK...
The Telegraph |
13 years 6 months ago
The Department for the Environment is due to publish a consultation this week setting out plans to privatise forests. The controversial plan has been attacked by the Archbishop of Canterbury and a host of celebrities including Judi Dench, Bill Bryson and Richard Briers. More than 170,...
TRUST |
13 years 6 months ago
DAR ES SALAAM (AlertNet) – Tanzania plans to draw up a comprehensive inventory of its forests to replace outdated statistics and help the east African country to conserve woodland, preserve livelihoods and curb climate change. Tanzania has 800 forests that are eligible for conservation,...
IUFRO |
13 years 6 months ago
NEW YORK (24 January 2010)—A new study issued today by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests. The report suggests that global...
Forest Talk |
13 years 7 months ago
The Munsee Delaware Nation is pleased to announce a major step forward in its bid to establish an accredited First Nations Forestry Training Program after receiving start-up funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation‘s (OTF) Future Fund. The First Nation community southwest of London, Ontario...
EFI |
13 years 7 months ago
Oirechas |
13 years 7 months ago
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with special responsibility for Fisheries and Forestry Sean Connick, TD, will discuss sustainable forestry and forest carbon sequestration with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security tomorrow,...
DP-News |
13 years 7 months ago
Damascus – Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform and the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry signed on Wednesday the project plan for building capacity in sustainable forest management planning.
RISI |
13 years 7 months ago
RISI, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, Dez. 20, 2010 (RISI) - Well-funded marketplace environmental campaigns from groups like ForestEthics in the US have been promoting increased use of recycled and FSC-certified fiber in paper and have led some major paper buyers to change their paper...
Nepal Times |
13 years 7 months ago
The current political disarray is resulting in calamitous deforestation across the country, and threatens to roll back Nepal's internationally acclaimed community forestry success story. Smugglers in cahoots with government officials, police, and members of forestry user groups are responsible...
Times Colonist |
13 years 7 months ago
Massive emissions of greenhouse gases are coming from B.C.'s coastal forests because of poor logging practices and inadequate management, according to a new report by environmentalists. The carbon from coastal rainforests, much of which comes from Vancouver Island, is not counted in B.C.'s...
Forest Talk |
13 years 7 months ago
China has come to the rescue for many sawmills and timberland owners in the US and Canada the past year. The value of softwood logs and lumber shipped from North America to China is estimated to reach over 1.6 billion US dollar in 2010, which is up dramatically from just a few years ago. In...
Counter Currents |
13 years 7 months ago
The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2011 held in the heritage city of Hyderabad from the 10-14th January 2011 was an eye opener with regard to the critical role that the commons such as forests, water bodies, and grazing lands play...
British Columbia announces a federal/provincial $1.2 million program to boost First Nations forestry
$1.2 million in federal-provincial funding for the First Nations Forest Sector Technical Support Program will help First Nations with economic development in the forest and wood products industries, announced Minister of State (Sport) Gary Lunn and Minister of Forests, Mines and Lands Pat Bell.
Phnom Penh Post |
13 years 7 months ago
The Forestry Administration has warned that the government will not meet its goal of achieving 60 percent forest cover nationwide if it continues parcelling out the Kingdom’s territory in economic land concessions. According to the Forestry Administration’s 2010 annual report, released last...
UN |
13 years 7 months ago
Eduardo Rojas-Briales is Assistant-Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. Previously, he was Vice-Dean of the Agronomy and Forest Faculty of the Polytechnical University of Valencia. He has...
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 7 months ago
THE Agriculture Ministry, in a release, has stated that the World Bank has approved Guyana's request for the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to perform the services as delivery partner for its participation in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which focal point is the...