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An indigenous tree -- buffalo thorn -- has been chosen as the tree of the year for the 2006 National Tree Planting Day because of its outstanding medicinal properties. The start of the tree planting season is always the first Saturday of December, this year December 2, with more than 89 000 seedlings of several species earmarked for planting on about 105 hectares countrywide.

Chopping up the dense forests of the Amazon lets hot winds blow in and around ancient trees, killing them off hundreds of years early, researchers reported Monday.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Factory farms need better regulation Studies show that threats to the public health and environment aren't being adequately addressed. These aren't your grandfather's hog farms. Feedlots today are mostly huge operations, packing hundreds, even thousands, of hogs, chickens or cattle into tight confinement.

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - A US congressional advisory body said China is not living up to its promises as a member of the World Trade Organization, and called for the US to be more insistent on getting Beijing to fulfill its commitments, the Wall Street Journal reported.

U.S. Rep to EU says that although rising prices due to biofuel demand may lessen farm subsidy issues, current Doha likely to fail. Although a biofuels "revolution" is underway in both the U.S. and EU, the World Trade Organization's Doha trade talks appear likely to fail, according to Boyden Gray, U.S. representative to the EU.

An environmental group has filed a complaint in the Supreme Court to stop illegal extraction of resin from pine trees in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayan Chipko Foundation Sunday said they have filed the application in the apex court, highlighting the "corruption and environmental danger due to the tapping of resin" from pine trees in Uttaranchal.

Some forest landowners never harvest trees because they are afraid that logging would be ugly. Some worry about soil erosion. However, many simply don't know how valuable their trees are or how a well-managed harvest could benefit forest health. The Missouri Department of Conservation is working to help all these landowners make the most of their forest.