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Dundee Securities Begins Coverage on Western Forest Products Inc
2016-03-21 23:20:58| Apparel - Topix.net
The brokerage set a "buy" rating and a C$2.80 price target on the stock. Dundee Securities' price target suggests a potential upside of 27.27% from the stock's previous close.
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10 facts about forests for International Forest Day
2016-03-21 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Today is International Forest Day, which was launched by the United Nations March 21, 2012 to promote the importance of forests and trees. In recognition of the designation, below are ten facts about forests. Forests cover around 4 billion hectares or 30 percent of Earths land surface Forests cover about four billion four billion hectares (16 million square miles). That represents about 30 percent of Earths land surface or eight percent of its total surface area. Ten countries hold about two-thirds...
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Tasmania forest logging bid dropped
2016-03-20 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Australian and Tasmanian authorities are abandoning their bid to have logging permitted in the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage site. The decision comes after a report by the UN cultural agency Unesco said the area "should be off-limits to commercial logging in its entirety". The Tasmanian Wilderness covers about a fifth of the island and is one of the world's last big temperate forests. Conservation groups have welcomed the Unesco report and the logging decision. In 2014 the...
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Australian government abandons campaign to log World Heritage forest
2016-03-20 06:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian government ended its push to log World Heritage-listed forests on the southern island state of Tasmania on Sunday, after the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO issued a report calling for the area to remain protected from logging. Australia's government in 2014 sought unsuccessfully to have parts of the Tasmanian wilderness, some one million hectares (2.47 million acres) or a fifth of the island, removed from UNESCO's World Heritage listing to enable logging. A United Nations...
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China's forest recovery shows hope mitigating global climate change
2016-03-18 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and conversion to farmland, has become a story of recovery, according to the first independent verification published in today's Science Advances by Michigan State University (MSU) researchers. "It is encouraging that China's forest has been recovering in the midst of its daunting environmental challenges such as severe air pollution and...
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