Asia-Pacific forestry information

2011

05.10

FAO calls for wildfire emissions monitoring and comprehensive fire

10 May 2011, Rome/Sun City - Whilst changing climatic conditions may be exacerbating the growing number of mega-fires round the world, these fires may also themselves be a contributing factor to global warming, said FAO in a report presented today at the 5 th International Wildland Fire Conference in Sun City, South Africa. The...

2011

03.16

Thousands Protest Swedish Primeval Forest Logging

16 March 2011, SCOOPNews - The recently approved logging of pristine subalpine forest in Änok has led to an international outcry. Thousands of individuals have written to the County Administration Board in Norrbotten, urging them to stop the logging and instead preserve this pristine wilderness intact. Environmental...

2011

02.28

Decree strengthens forest protection

28 February 2011, VNA News - Vietnam advocates making local people responsible for nature preservation to effectively protect their forests. Hua Duc Nhi, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development made the statement at a national conference to announce the government’s decree on special-purposed forest management...

2011

04.17

Indonesia and the EU reach agreement on illegal wood trade

17 April, Mongabay news - A new agreement will work to keep illegal wood from Indonesia out of European Union markets. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) will force Indonesia to only ship wood to the EU that has been approved as legal by a national authority, while EU customs workers are set to send any unapproved wood...

2011

02.07

Coalition in U-turn over forestry privatisation as nature reserves

7 February 2011, Dailymail news - Ministers have signalled a retreat on selling off England’s precious woodlands, saying the contentious plan was ‘not a done deal’. The government performed its first big U-turn on the austerity plans for precious woodlands, scrapping proposals to sell off 140 National Nature Reserves...

2011

04.27

Vietnam's Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung calls for

27 April 2011, VNA news - Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has affirmed that raising people’s awareness of forest protection and development is an important task for national development. At an online conference held in Hanoi on April 27 to review a project to plant 5 million ha of trees nationwide, Deputy PM...

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