Log supply from Australia’s timber plantations is set to increase substantially according to a new report, released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). Australia’s plantation log supply 2010-2054 forecasts the volume of plantation logs available...
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InternationalForestIndustries |
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Greenwood Investment |
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Ikea has come under heavy criticism for failing to use sustainable forestry for making its wooden furniture. The Swedish company has been found to have cleared old-growth forests in the north of Russia in Karelia through its wholly-owned subsidiary Swedwood.
Kaieteur News Online |
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The Indian coffee company which was given a forestry concession to mainly carry out value added activities has said that its main plant will in fact be in India and not Guyana. This raises concerns that the company will continue to export logs out of Guyana. Two months ago the company, Vaitarna...
InternationalForestIndustries |
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New Zealand Exports The first quarter log import totals from New Zealand into China equaled just over 1.5 million cubic metres. This is down 25% on the last quarter of 2011 and down 17% year-on-year for the first quarter. New Zealand still maintained 25% of the market share of Chinese imports in...
Boston.com |
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China has made significant progress in restoring its forest cover while also allowing residents to make a living from plantations, forest products and tourism, the RRI report says. In southwestern China’s Tengchong area, local communities are allowed to vote on whether to manage the forests...
Daily News Tanzania |
11 years 11 months ago
AN audit report by Ernst & Young has established that 400,000 US dollars (approx. 624m/-) was misappropriated by the WWF local staff who forged hotel, taxi receipts and direct corruption. As a result of the audit report, eight employees have been terminated while six have resigned during the...
Vietnam Times |
11 years 11 months ago
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German consulting company GITEC Consult GmbH have agreed to partner in biodiversity conservation in southern Laos under a project set to run until 2018. A cooperation contract was jointly signed yesterday by the ministry's Department of Forest...
Think African |
11 years 11 months ago
With the lyrics of American rap legend Tupac Shakur pumping from the car stereo, 36-year-old Steve Okoikpi manoeuvres his Mercedes Benz through sharp bends on the road. The destination is Akasanko, a forest community of about 500 people on the outskirts of Calabar, the capital of Cross River State...
Guardian |
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CIFOR |
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Bogor, Indonesia Authors: Johnson, F.X.; Pacini, H.; Smeets, E
Spiegel |
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Want to protect the rainforest? All it takes is €5 ($6.30) to get started. Save the gorillas? Three euros and you're in. You can even do your part for nature with only 50 cents -- as long as you entrust it to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which is still known by its original name of the...
ECO-Business |
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Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities.
Timber Community |
11 years 11 months ago
The global sawlog price index in the 1Q/12 was down almost nine percent from early 2011, with Europe experiencing the biggest decline in prices, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Reduced global demand for lumber has resulted in a reduction in the Global Sawlog Price Index by almost nine percent...
TFT |
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Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary PT SMART, supported by TFT and Greenpeace, have reached a significant milestone with the publication of a report detailing the methodology and findings from their High Carbon Stock (HSC) forest fieldwork.
Forest Carbon Asia |
11 years 11 months ago
The Amazon Fund, created in 2008 to promote projects for the prevention and combating deforestation and conservation and sustainable use of forests, has so far approved 30 projects. This represents $ 500 million in investments and $ 303 million in financing from Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento...
Times of Malta |
11 years 11 months ago
Environmental problems result, it is said, from the rich dumping on the poor and the present dumping on the future. Tuesday, June 5, 2012 by by Michael Zammit Cutajar
China Daily |
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China's total forest area has increased to 195 million hectares from 134 million hectares in 1992, marking a net gain of 60 million hectares within 20 years, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said Monday. Despite a decreasing global forest reserve, China's forest inventory expanded by 3.6...
Phys Org |
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But a new study by researchers at Duke and Oregon State universities finds that leaving forests intact so they can continue to store carbon dioxide and keep it from re-entering the atmosphere will do more to curb climate change over the next century than cutting and burning their wood as fuel.
RISI |
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Biomass had so much promise. But now it's about to go up in smoke. Only a few years ago, energy production from biomass had one of the brightest, most promising futures in both the US and Europe. The EU's 20/20/20 Renewable Energy Directive set a sizable proportion of the 20% renewable energy goal...
CIFOR |
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As tropical forests give way to cities, roads and soybean fields, what’s left behind is a collage of forest remnants and ‘secondary’ forests that regrow after agricultural lands are abandoned. While protecting primary forests will always be essential for tropical conservation, these mosaic...