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Hat trick by 'green' Gujarat foresters
Ahmedabad :: India | about 24 hours ago
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Awards, instituted to recognise pioneering contribution in the field of afforestation and wasteland development. The latest award for 2008 was announced last week. Range forest officer, Khambat, PH Rohit received the recognition for mangrove plantation...
Tags: Gulf of Khambat, gujarat forest, Rajkot, India, Ahmedabad, Environment, Forest, Social forestry in India, Afforestation, Gujarat, Gulf of Khambhat, Plantation, Forestry
Plant forests across Britain to beat climate change, say scientists
Kettering :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Planting trees in 23,000 hectares a year for the next 40 years — about the size of Queen’s Balmoral estate, or a town the size of Kettering, Northamptonshire — would result in just an extra 4 per cent of land for trees, bringing a total of 16 per cent...
Tags: Britain, North West of England, climate change, native species, United Kingdom, Kettering, Environment, Forest, Treeplanting, Tree, Spruce, Picea sitchensis, Sustainability, Deforestation, Forestry
Rainforests ravaged
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility Actually we were right in the middle of Kalinga forest in Srimongol, supposed to be one of the largest and pristine rainforests of the country. What we saw around is unbelievable -- felled trees, sawed off branches, splintered wood, barks shaved off trees,...
Tags: Kalinga, felled trees, illegal logged, illegal loggers, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Logging, Old-growth forest, Lumberjack, Rainforest, Forest, Forestry, Trees, Deforestation, Environment
1,000 trees planted in Nation’s green drive
Brazzaville :: Congo | 3 days ago
Credibility The Nation Media Group took its tree-planting campaign to Kakamega Forest at the weekend. Its workers planted more than 1,000 indigenous tree seedlings on two hectares of land in the forest with the help of Provincial Administration officials, students...
Tags: Congo, Brazzaville, Western Province, Treeplanting, Forest, Kakamega, Kakamega District, Provinces of Kenya, Environment
Top scientists join calls to save threatened red gum forests
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Dead gums ... the Natural Resources Commission says the forests are under serious threat, with many of the trees dead, dying or highly stressed. Australia have written to the Premier, Nathan Rees, asking him to protect the iconic Riverina red gum forests...
Tags: red gum, Natural Resources Commission, gum forests, nature resources, Australia, Sydney, Forest, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Flora of New South Wales, Forestry, Environment
Armchair army to save rainforest
Lima :: Peru | 4 days ago
Credibility A conservation group led by a millionaire sports tycoon and a former Labour minister is launching an appeal today to recruit 100,000 green heroes to protect trees in the Amazon. With less than three weeks to go before the United Nations climate change...
Tags: Cool Earth, save rainforest, Peru, Lima, Rainforest, Ecosystems, Trees, Deforestation, Forest, Forestry, Johan Eliasch, Environment
Computer model predicts future deforestation in Congo Basin rainforest
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility Michael Obersteiner, who is leading the development of the forestry model at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, based in Laxenburg, Austria. �But for Central African countries, the forward-looking projections will be more reliable,�...
Tags: Congo Basin, basin rainforest, predicts future, models predicts, Belgium, Brussels, Forests, Rainforest, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, Forest, Afforestation, Deforestation, Forestry, Carbon finance, Environment
DENR intensifies efforts to save Bicol National Park
Basud :: Philippines | 5 days ago
Credibility The agency even issued permits to charcoal makers notwithstanding the fact that trees are cut for the purpose. Act that mandates protected area conservation. While crisis situation at the BNP prevails, the private sector and individuals however has not...
Tags: Bicol National Park BASUD, BNP, Salvacion Pacoa, old growth, DENR, protection area, Philippines, Basud, Old-growth forest, Charcoal, Logging, Forest protection, Forest, Provinces of the Philippines, Forestry, Camarines Norte, Environment
Switching from destruction to protection
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 7 days ago
Credibility This is because if the embryonic schemes looking to earn potentially billions of dollars through financial credits from protecting forests are to succeed, they will need to adopt similar strategies to WWF’s. More than a thousand canals had been dug through...
Tags: Indonesia, Jakarta, Environment, Peat, Carbon finance, Fuels, Coal, Sediments, Deforestation, Emissions trading, Borneo, World Wide Fund for Nature, Climate change, Central Kalimantan, Smoulder, Carbon credit, Kyoto Protocol, Forest, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, Carbon neutrality
ASK MR. OUTDOORS
Bremerton :: WA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Is it legal to cut Christmas trees in the National Forest? Randy W., via email A: It is legal to cut Christmas trees in Olympic National Forest and other national forests in our state, but you’ve got to get a permit. If you plan to cut in Olympic National...
Tags: christmas trees, Bremerton, Hood Canal, Olympic National Forest, Christmas tree, Forest, Environment
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