However, forests in China had been growing by 1.2 percent or 1.81 million hectares every year in the same period, the highest growth rate in the world, Zhu said at a press conference in Beijing. Experts estimated carbon dioxide absorbed by China's forests had risen from 470 million tons in 1990 to more than 500 million tons currently. Since the drive for voluntary tree-planting and forestation 26 years ago, Chinese people had planted 49. China's forest coverage soars. The expanding forests...

Tree planting campaign A massive tree planting campaign would address many of these problems. Romania's agricultural sector is being decimated by these unusually high temperatures, and what is not dried up by the sun is often carried away by an increasing number of floods. But there is increasing demand for timber from industry, a very lucrative export market, and more trees urgently need to be planted. Parts of eastern Romania have become so arid that farming is impossible and in other...

A sticky point for Malaysia is the unresolved conflicts in timber concession areas between indigenous communities and state-licensed logging companies, particularly in Sarawak. Nicholas pointed out that industrial logging in Malaysia is carried out by rich timber companies and not by the poor. The regrettable effect of this perception is that the ordinary people lose their rights and lose their livelihoods, while the rich and the powerful get rewarded for their plunder and inhumanity, he added.

They will also learn basics of tree care, including how to properly plant a tree, how to deal with summer drought and how to identify diseased trees. Participants will be educated on how trees play an important role in helping to clean the air and protect water. start on Tuesday, July 24, the workshop takes place at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 235 Church St.

He said some cases involved timber companies, who had strayed outside their logging concession areas. He advised timber companies to log within their concession areas and urged the public to inform police of any suspected illegal logging activities. KUCHING: Sarawak police are using helicopters from the police air wing to detect illegal logging in the state. Nation Wednesday July 18, 2007 Sarawak police using helicopters to detect illegal logging. On our part, we can take action on the...