The RF Emergency Ministry is ready to send additional aircraft to fight wild fire in
Greece, where 13 helicopters and a plane of Russia have arrived for
that purpose already, Deputy Emergency Minister Alexander Chupriyan
said.
“We are ready to execute any order of minister or the...
China has issued guidelines for enterprises engaging in logging overseas,
state media reported on Wednesday, following accusations that it is plundering
the world's forests to meet booming demand for wood.
The guidelines, issued jointly by the State Forestry
Administration and...
Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade Sten Tolgfors has fiercely
criticized Russia's WTO bid because of higher duties on Russian
unprocessed timber.
However, if Tolgfors' intention is to slow or stop Russia's ascension
to the WTO, he is unlikely to succeed. The talks on Russia's WTO...
Sweden is “strongly critical” to the Russian plans to boost tariffs on
round timber exports. Trade Minister Sten Tolgfors says Russia uses
dubious trade methods and that the country is breaking earlier promises
to postpone the tariff increase.The Russian government plans to introduce the...
Head of the Polish company Flyderer that is specialized on the wood
processing and corresponding production has made a decision about the
construction of a big woodworking plant in Ukraine. That was the agenda
during the visit of a Ukrainian manger of Flyderer Yuriy Novosad to
Kahrkov....
The government of Kirovsk region (Russian Federation) recently
announced that in 2008 forest concessions may be awarded without
auction to key investors in the regional timber industry. Following the
new Forestry Code’s adoption, the Russian government passed a
regulation on priority...
An expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered six new animal species.
Conservationists discovered one new bat species, a new rodent and two new species each of shrews and frogs.
The region, which is in eastern DR Congo, near Lake
Tanganyika, has...
By April 2008, the government hopes that a new lumber cooperative,
Kumamoto Lumber Cooperative, will boost Japan’s forest industry. As
part of the Forest Agency’s “new production system”, the cooperative
will consume 4,400 m³ of local cedar logs and will eventually generate
JPY2...
