According to Non Governmental Organization – Environmental Investigations Agency (NGO-EIA), 9 companies from 5 EU countries had failed to meet the EU Timber Regulation, regarding a legal import of teak from Myanmar.
Month: October 2016
Optimal level of deforestation
The last part of the interview with prof. Hofstad from NMBU focuses on hopes for the future or REDD. If you have not read previous parts about degradation of REDD, you can find them here: PARTContinue reading
The EU as the world’s largest wood pellet market
A report recently published by the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service’s Global Agricultural Information Network provides an overview of the European Union’s biofuel, wood pellet market and biogas production. Without any doubts, the EU is the world’sContinue reading
The Faustmann Symposium was held this year in China
The Fifth International Faustmann Symposium was successfully held on October 17-21 October, 2016 in Beijing, China. Forest economists from over nine countries came to present their recent work, discuss recent findings and celebrate the next 167th anniversaryContinue reading
China overtook Canada and USA in wood production
According to FAO, year 2014 was very successful in global production of all major wood products. Since the global economic downturn of 2008-2009, all major forest products exceeded levels seen prior to economic crisis.
Can we increase biodiversity with logging?
The objective of the SelPiBio Life+ project is to demonstrate how an innovative silvicultural treatment in Pinus nigra increases the degree of the biodiversity at the level of the soil environment (fungi, bacteria, flora, mesofauna, nematodes).Continue reading
Degradation of REDD – PART II
The second part of the interview with professor Ole Hofstad from NMBU is focused on, inter alia, deforestation, forest degradation, carbon sequestration and illegal logging in REDD countries. If you have not read the first part of theContinue reading
Ecological civilization in China – dreams or nightmares?
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) prepared a report entitled “Green is gold: The strategy and actions of China’s ecological civilization”. In this report, one may find that forests will cover nearly a 25% of China by yearContinue reading
Pine beetles don’t support forest fires
One of the greatest challenges for contemporary ecology is to predict the consequences of climate change on ecosystems. This post discusses the connection between pine beetles outbreaks and forest fires in the western United States. ReadContinue reading
Global warming is due to sun’s radiation – NOT carbon emissions!
Physicist Ned Nikolov and retired meteorologist Karl Zeller developed a mathematical model that accurately predicts the surface temperature of rocky planets such as Mars, Venus or Moon. Scientists claim that model works also for Earth.Continue reading