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The U.S. Forest Service says it has increased the pace and scale of its forest restoration work since 2011, but progress waned this year and the agency risks following further behind without more resources. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is using a new report to press Congress to change the way in which the federal government funds wildfire fighting. The report states that the Forest Services ...
The forestry sector moves up the scale at Expobiomasa If the amount of exhibition floor space seems surprising for a specialised fair devoted exclusively to biomass, then this is mainly due to the 8,000 m2 of machinery and equipment for handling timber on display in ‘Expobiomasa Forestal’ included in the main fair. This was thanks to a specific call that went out to ...
The white paper titled “UnderstandingRegulation (EU) 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council” talks about a technical review of the obligations that apply to operators when placing timber and timber products on the market and the implementation requirements for due diligence systems. The purpose of this technical white ...
BySGS
Often forests that are intensively managed for timber production have little variation in the age or type of trees and there is little in the way of fallen trees and debris to provide habitat. ...
Today the European Union and Indonesia signed a historic trade agreement which will contribute to halting the trade in illegal timber. Under the agreement, only verified legal timber and timber products will be exported to the EU. ...
Today the European Union and Indonesia signed a historic trade agreement which will contribute to halting the trade in illegal timber. Under the agreement, only verified legal timber and timber products will be exported to the EU. ...
The webinar will also provide delegates with up to date information on developments by FSC and PEFC in relation to the European Union Timber Regulation and will review the requirements proposed by FSC for an online platform for verifying FSC claims. Agenda The webinar will discuss further information about: Requirements for implementing COC certification systems FSC / ...
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The new law affects both imported and domestically produced timber and timber products, and it covers an extensive range of products, from paper and pulp to solid wood and flooring. ...
Examples include protected areas, improved and sustainable farming practices, reducing impacts of extractive use of forests such as logging and use of non-timber forest products. Other actions include restoration and reforestation; and landscape scale planning. ...
Increasing the capacity of forest communities to generate value-added timber products in more efficient ways. This action could eliminate another step in the supply chain and increase the chances that communities would benefit directly from the forests. ...
Illegal Logging in Latin America México currently faces governance, market, and institutional challenges when it comes to regulating its forest products’ trade. Back in 2001, Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources estimated that more than half of the country’s reported industrial timber production happens ...
"We are pleased to be working with SFI and other partners to raise awareness and equip participants in forest product supply chains with practical, interactive and freely accessible tools so they can exercise due care and keep illegally harvested forest products out of the market." Illegal logging is a critical international issue, one that represents a major ...
Under these programs, enrolled lands are assessed not at their fair market value (for housing development and the like) but at their value for timber production and other forest uses. This lowers the tax bill for landowners, improves the profitability of timber production, and helps reduce development pressure. ...
Map layers are arranged into a menu of options that allow users to view the information by themes such as forest zoning, timber production, mining and forest cover change. MECNT and WRI collaborated to produce the map layers on forest development, while forest change data was provided by the project Forêts d’Afrique Centrale Evaluées par ...
This issue brief provides an overview of how public land, including forestland, can be “put to work” to earn revenue from the ecosystem services they provide. These include sustainable timber production, recreation and hunting fees, and – to the extent that management activities enhance environmental quality – payments for carbon ...
The new Regulation will ban the sale on the EU market of illegal timber or of products derived from illegally harvested timber. EU operators selling timber and timber products for the first time on the EU market –whether they come from the EU or are imported – will need to know where ...
Nutrients remained “The production per hectare increased in a linear manner,” said Laércio Couta, who pointed out that there is a limit to how densely one can plant. ...
ByElmia AB
The FedEx funding will also sequester carbon, benefit fragile local economies and protect the valuable Yangtze River watershed that supplies one half of China's agricultural production, including two-thirds of China’s rice. CI will work with local communities to have their forestry projects certified according to the Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards, which will ...
The Centre for International Economics (the CIE) today released its final report to inform the government's Regulation Impact Statement for the proposed new policy on illegally-logged timber. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke said the Rudd Government is determined to restrict the importation of illegally logged wood products. ...
SGS Forestry Monitoring Programme (GIS) is pleased to announce that, on January 20, 2010, it signed a five year contract with the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism (MECNT) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to initiate implementation of an integrated forest control system to monitor and verify forest logging, timber chain-of-custody and forest ...
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