Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Secondary Tropical Forests Store More Carbon Than Old-Growth Forests, Researchers Say
Climate change mitigation largely focuses on old-growth tropical forests, but a new study from the University of Minnesota, suggests that regenerated or secondary tropical forests may play a much larger
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Wrong Types Of Trees' In Europe Accelerated Climate Change, Researchers Say
Forests help mitigate climate change by storing carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. It appears, however, that more than 250 years of forest management in Europe has had the opposite effect.
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Logs worth millions stranded in forests
A large number of trees of different national and community forests had fallen due to heavy storms in mid-May last year. Though District Forest Office has took stock of the trees, it has not done anything
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Climate change adaptation in Swedish forestry: driving forces, risks and opportunities
This report summarizes insights from SEI research under the Mistra-SWECIA programme, with a focus on the drivers of and barriers to adaptation in the Swedish forestry sector. For forests and forestry,
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Shrine Board drafts plan to prevent forest fires
Acting upon the directions of Governor NN Vohra, the CEO and other officers of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board have been preparing a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based forest management plan
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Naveen seeks uniform norms for compensatory afforestation
To expedite clearances for State PSU projects Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi that special provisions made for Central PSUs in the matter of raising
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Tanzania forest project runs into trouble
Reducing emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) that is being implemented in Kisongwe village, Kilosa district boundary (over 500km from Dar es Salaam) has caused dispute with their
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Changing climate and reforestation
For the past six years, researchers at the Universitat Politènica de València (Polytechnic Univeristy of Valencia, UPV) have been studying the performance of twelve Aleppo pine varieties native to different
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Algeria: State Mobilizes Necessary Resources to Protect Forests
Algiers — The State has mobilized all the necessary resources to protect forests, said Tuesday Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing Sid AhmedFerroukhi. "The State has mobilized all
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To save rare forests, farmers try a new crop: butterflies
The colourful butterflies fluttering through Zanzibar's Jozani forest are beautiful to look at, but for farmers and charcoal producers in the region, they mean something more: a paycheck. In an effort