About 20 percent of this forest cover have been affected by forest concessionaires' exploitation. He said that in 2005 local police confiscated 33,249 cubic meters of processed timber which were obtained from illegal logging. But deforestation and illegal logging had been increasing during the Aceh reconstruction process to meet the need for wood materials, which in 2006 increased four folds to 120,209. View blog reactions Previous Stories One billion to be displaced by 2050, global...

This, together with the tree planting incentives signalled in the announcement, accords closely with United Future s climate change policy in relation to forestry, said Mr Copeland. Commissioner Responds: Police Commissioner Broad Responds To Allegations Police Commissioner Howard Broad says he is embarrassed that a pornographic film containing bestiality was shown at a party held in his house in Dunedin in 1981 without his prior knowledge and permission. UF support for tree planting...

Western consumption, and not China's timber trade, is to blame for the depletion of the world's tropical forest resources, according to a recent report. When searching for reasons behind shrinking forests, "we should be careful and we should always look at the final destination", said Dennis Pamlin, a global policy advisor of WWF Sweden, who is co-author of the report. China imported 6 to 7 million cubic meters of hardwood last year, or 1 to 2 per cent of the overall felling in tropical...

Many landscapers say they're being forced to work on clean up before they can begin their planting seasons thanks to the storms that felled countless trees last month. Warwick said he usually spends May planting but instead has been inundated with tree removal jobs, more than 30 so far. But April's weather, first with the snow and then the rain, made planting impossible and wreaked havoc on many trees and yards, she said. The weather meant three weeks of prime planting time was shut down....

While the sight of a large live oak with a V-trim, can be shocking (see photo), one has to think, Why is this large tree planted underneath these power lines? The utility line clearance guys get to deal with a wrong tree, wrong place situation. The bottom line is, they are protecting our power lines from malfunctioning in high-wind events when the wires are surrounded by a menace lots of tree branches! To avoid hat-racking trees (which resprout quickly and are back in the wires sooner than...

usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Smog increases fire threat Pollution stunts tree roots, alters soil Andrew Silva, Staff Writer Article Launched:05/14/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT Mountain residents are all too familiar with the multiple-whammy that turned the San Bernardino National Forest into a tinder box earlier this decade. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Smog increases fire threat Pollution stunts tree roots, alters soil Andrew Silva, Staff Writer...