Revue de presse Forêts

XIII World Forestry Congress 2009 – Call for papers and posters
Official Web site: http://www.wfc2009.org/index_1024.html

The forgotten half: women in forestry in Africa

Accra, 12 November 2007 – Although women play key roles in forest protection and conservation, policies and laws are biased in favor of men, said the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today at the opening of a gender workshop for forestry in Africa.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/newsroom/en/news/334/highlight_578en.html

Bangladesh:
Indigenous people and forest care
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=10789

Honduras:
Bosque Modelo San Pedro buscará su validación definitiva en Honduras
http://www.territoriodigital.com/nota.aspx?c=1942912835606077

India:

40 hectares allotted for jatropha cultivation
http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/11/stories/2007111156270700.htm

Indonesia:
Greenpeace urges Indonesia to stop burning forest
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFUN5W92FvIDCfL4q4N8HtGoVE_A

Environmental fears over palm oil
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/08/greenpeace.palmoil/index.html?iref=newssearch

Food firms blamed for Indonesian forest damage
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/food-firms-blamed-for-indonesian-forest-damage/2007/11/08/1194329410360.html

Indonesia dismisses concern on high emission, promises to fix peat-land
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/09/content_7040886.htm

Nations share blame for Indonesia deforestation: VP
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKJAK6675020071109

Indonesian palm oil industry tries disinformation campaign
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1108-palm_oil.html

Brazil :
Soybean Trade Drives Forest Destruction in Brazil
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16227365

UN chief promises to help Brazil protect Amazon forest
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/13/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-UN-Chief.php

Democratic Republic of the Congo :
Les forêts d’Afrique centrale ne peuvent être sauvées sans moyens
http://www.afrik.com/article12937.html

Indonesia:
Greenpeace blocks shipment of Indonesian palm oil
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSJAK323505

In new take on carbon-trading, Indonesia may get paid to save trees
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p07s02-woap.html

The Philippines:
Indigenous peoples and forest tenure security
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/nov/17/yehey/opinion/20071117opi5.html

Amazon:
In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1111-amazon.html

Innovation :
A new model to simulate forest growth
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/bericht-96133.html