VIDEO : Hundreds evacuated as forest fire rages in east Spain

Updated: 24/03/2023 – 17:36 Hundreds of people were evacuated as a major forest fire raged in Spain’s eastern Castellón region. Ximo Puig, the president of the Valencia region that incorporates Castellon, told reporters the fire had engulfed around 1,000 hectares of land and was “very early in the spring, very voracious from the beginning.” Hundreds … Read more

FAO provides support in increasing forest fund for Turkmenistan

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 22. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides support in landscaping and implementation of the National Forest Program of Turkmenistan, a source at FAO told Trend. According to the information, within the framework of the FAO and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project, two nurseries (1 ha each) … Read more

Human Activities Are Changing Forest Structure

AsianScientist (Feb. 02, 2023) – Research is increasingly showing that climate change and human activities strongly influence forests. However, environmental scientists don’t fully understand the pervasiveness of these stressors and how they will shape future forest structure. Forests are expected to be mostly intact in protected areas (PAs) and so-called intact forest landscapes (IFLs). But human impacts are … Read more