Stora Enso is increasing the size of its Chinese plantations.
The company announced today that it has signed a contract with the Chinese city of Beihai to secure 76,108 acres of land in Guangxi province.
Under the contract, the city will provide Stora Enso with existing plantations and new plantations on forest lands over the next two years.
Forests in northern nations such as Russia and Canada are worth US$250 billion a year because of services they provide by purifying water or soaking up greenhouse gases, a researcher said on Tuesday.
Illegal felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees in Marayur forest in Idukki have come down owing to a series of steps taken by the Government, Minister for Forest Benoy Viswom has said.
The G8 Illegal Logging Dialogue has been launched in Singapore to attempt to put a stop to worldwide illegal logging. Delegates from G8 nations, plus China, India and other top timber producting nations, timber companies and NGOs will take part.
National forests around the region have begun unveiling new strategies to close, shorten seasons or levy new fees at campgrounds, trailheads and other recreation sites that they can no longer afford to maintain.
Four years after the most expensive fire season in history, two years after an exhaustive federal report on high firefighting costs, the U.S. Forest Service still is burning through dollars like wildfire through chaparral.
An Oregon timber company that is logging burned timber on roadless national forest land in southwest Oregon has become the first to contest a federal judge's decision putting many such lands off-limits to logging and other development.
