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The World Wide Fund for Nature has announced that tracker dogs could soon be used to sniff out illegally imported timber in the cargo areas of airports and ports.
A joint research project between the German Plastics Center – SKZ and the Göttingen University Institute for Wood Biology and Wood Technology has developed a new wood plastic composite (WPC) for use in window and façade construction.
According to the German Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), representatives of Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary have signed a joint declaration on the sustainable development of bioenergy in Central Europe.
Egypt’s population is concentrated almost exclusively along the fertile strip of land around the Nile and the Nile Delta.
n a recently published market report, the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association (DEPV) notes that Germany was Europe’s biggest producer of wood pellets in 2011, with a total output for the year of 1.88 million metric tons.
Die Europäische Kommission hat am Montag beschlossen, nun auch für die Land- und Forstwirtschaft im Geltungsbereich der EU Regeln für Emissionen von Treibhausgasen einzuführen.
Scientists at the Institute for World Forestry of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (vTI) in Hamburg, Germany, have developed a farming method that is successfully reducing slash-and-burn forest clearance by small-scale famers in Ghana while at the same time improving the economic situation of local village populations.
Rwanda is the winner of the 2011 Future Policy Award.
In the early part of this year, the Institute of Forest Genetics of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) will embark on a three-year R&D project in cooperation with project partners Phytowelt Green Technologies GmbH and the Northwest German Research Institute (NW-FVA). The aim of the project? To use protoplast fusion to develop new poplar varieties that are well adapted to cultivation in short-rotation coppices.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm Klauditz Institute (Fraunhofer WKI) have, it appears, developed a new method for detecting hidden flaws in wood. The method involves the use of high-power ultrasound thermography to detect longitudinal and transverse cracks, gluing errors, delaminations and bark encased knots.
Finnish company UPM has announced plans to build a biorefinery for the production of wood-based biodiesel.
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