Malaysia to continue to limit wood exports Moratorium aims to ensure furniture manufacturers have adequate supply Thomas Russell, January 9, 2018 PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – The Malaysian government announced it plans to continue to limit the amount of sawn timber exports, including rubberwood, a major component of both solid wood and veneered adult and youth furniture made…
Last year’s massive King Fire burned 63,000 acres of Eldorado National Forest, at one point even threatening to jump the crest and spread to Lake Tahoe. In the fire’s aftermath, the Forest Service has released its plan for the King Fire Restoration. Unfortunately, it is all about logging the burned trees (“salvage logging”), establishing sterile…
Plan to plant 50m trees along 120-mile stretch next to M62 will provide habitat for wildlife as well as help manage flood risk Frances Perraudin North of England reporter https://twitter.com/fperraudin @fperraudin Sun 7 Jan 2018 The government has pledged £5.7m to kickstart the creation of a northern forest that will stretch from Liverpool to…
Planting trees has become a key part of China’s efforts to improve its environment and tackle climate change. SHANGHAI, Jan 5 (Reuters) – China will plant new forests covering an area roughly the size of Ireland this year as it aims to increase forest coverage to 23 per cent of its total landmass by the…
Trump bloviates on climate, blows off the United Nations, and deregulates blowout preventers. by Brian Palmer January 05, 2018 Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and his allies. President Trump laying out a national security strategy that includes reversing Obama-era warnings on climate change, December…
by EU FLEGT Facility, 19 December 2017 The Republic of Congo and the European Union (EU) have adopted a five-year plan for the implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) aimed at eliminating illegal logging. This Agreement is part of the EU initiative on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). Co-presidents of the JIC…
Climate change activists have chastised Trump for his environmental policies [Lukas Schulze/Getty] TRUMP’S CLIMATE POLICY What are the policies? Why did the US leave the Paris Agreement? Who has Trump appointed to the climate file? Do Trump’s policies have popular support? How have local officials responded? City officials from the United States and around the world…
The Forestry Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four institutions to undertake landscape restoration in the Tain II Forest Reserve and its fringe areas. The MoU with Form Ghana Limited, Form International, the Berekum Traditional Council and the Berekum Municipal Assembly covers a four-year period, from 2017 to 2021, for phase I…
The impacts of illegal logging include environmental, economic and social aspects. Environmental impacts include the loss or degradation of forests, as illegal logging tends to be associated with poor forest management. This can result in the loss of habitats and biodiversity. For example, illegal logging is threatening the survival of some of the world’s most…
The causes of illegal logging are manifold. Weaknesses in forest governance in producer countries are typically the direct cause. However, consumer countries contribute to these problems by importing timber and timber products without ensuring that they are legally sourced. Governance problems include weak institutions and limited resources, which results in a lack of law enforcement…