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Sawdust dump on fire for three years

28 July 2016
Environmentalists in Siberia are expressing concern over an ongoing fire at the world’s largest sawdust dump — a fire that’s been burning since 2013 and will continue to do so for years to come. Source: Gizmodo As The Siberian Times reports, the monumental mountain of sawdust — which
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UN report backs timber for building

28 July 2016
Using timber in green buildings is a key way for the forestry industry to assist in the transition to a low carbon economy, according to a new United Nations report. Source: The Fifth Estate Released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Forestry for a low-carbon future: In
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Farming and forestry can deliver food

21 July 2016
Improving co-operation between nations’ farming and forestry sectors will help reduce deforestation and improve food security, a UN report has suggested. Source: BBC News Between 2000 and 2010, tropical nations saw net forest loss of seven million hectares per year and a net gai
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50 million trees planted in one day

21 July 2016
Officials in Uttar Pradesh passed out millions of saplings to be planted all over the state so it could increase its forest cover. Source: Huffington Post The shade-surging drive was part of a pledge India made at 2015’s climate change summit in Paris to increase the nation’s forest c
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Wood fuel not as bad as thought

21 July 2016
Felling trees for firewood is an eons-old practice that in recent history has come under criticism by conservationists. But according to new research conducted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the true environmental impact of wood fuel needs to be better unde
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Paper transparency – the way to go

14 July 2016
Growing up in the ’90s, we were told that using too much paper was killing trees and, well, who wants to be a tree killer? From this perspective, it seems that we are better off embracing the digital era; books and notepads ought to be a thing of the past, replaced by laptops and tabl
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Teens timber and drones at A-level

14 July 2016
Teenagers are set to study the use of drones for the first time in a new Environmental Science A-level subject in the UK. Source: The Telegraph UK Students will also learn how DNA is used to combat the multi-billion pound illegal timber trade, AQA, the exam board in charge of the new
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Noah’s arking up for timber

14 July 2016
Accoya, the modified wood produced by Accsys Technologies, has been specified for the cladding of a giant replica of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky in the United States. Source: Timberbiz Answers in Genesis (AiG) is the organisation funding the one-of-a-kind attraction, Ark Enco
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Better opportunities needed for Chinese women in forestry

07 July 2016
A new study looks at the status of women in China’s forest sector reform and highlights the need to integrate the gender perspective in the reform policies in order to improve women’s access to forestland rights and participation in decision making. Source: World Bank According to the
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Metsa benefits from Brexit

07 July 2016
Finnish forestry companies such as the Metsä Group are benefiting from the exchange rate turbulence following Brexit, Britain’s referendum decision to leave the EU. Source: UUTISET The news comes as a surprise as many Finnish companies were forecast to suffer financially followi
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