Forestry Code News Today

The Romanian Senate passed the new Forestry Code bill on April 29, including, among others, the amendments to safeguard the forests in Ilfov county. Protecting these forests would be the starting point for creating the Bucharest-Ilfov Green Belt - a civic initiative backed by the Ministry of...

Amendments to the new Forestry Code bill that aim to protect the forests of Ilfov county against commercial logging got the green light from expert committees of the Senate. Safeguarding these forests would be the starting point for creating the Bucharest-Ilfov Green Belt as a solution to the...

Several amendments have been submitted to the new Forestry Code currently debated in the Romanian Parliament, and protecting the forest vegetation in Ilfov, the county surrounding Bucharest, is among them. Safeguarding these forests would be the starting point for creating a Green Belt around...

A forest zone in Barangay Data in Sabangan, Mountain Province will now be reclaimed for the public’s use after the Supreme Court recently ordered a permanent environmental protection order (PEPO). Associate Justice Jhosep Lopez of the SC’s Second Division, in a 22-page decision, denied the consolidated petitions for review on certiorari filed by petitioners spouses Robles and

The National Forestry Regia (RNP) - Romsilva has scheduled for 2024 the harvesting of 9.3 million cubic meters (m3) of wood from forests owned by the state, of ...

NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil — This past July, 15 Indigenous women made the thousand-mile journey from their home of Rolim de Moura, in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondônia, east to Nova Xavantina, in the state of Mato Grosso. They went as representatives of the 146 seed collectors from Reseba, the Amazonian Bioeconomic Seed Network, an […]

TUGUEGARAO CITY: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has issued notices to 25 owners of beach resorts and other establishments in the coastal town of Santa Ana, ordering them to vacate and self-demolish their structures.

The current draft law on the Forestry Code will make it more difficult for journalists and environmental organizations that document on the ground the illegal cutting of trees and other violations of the law in Romania's forests, states, in a press release, the Academic Society of Romania (SAR) , which officially requests the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Forests (MMAP) to remove the respective provisions from the draft normative act.

BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-13 confiscated undocumented lumber valued at P1.8 million in the Caraga region last May.

One-third of monitored timber transports in Romania are illegal, and approximately 26% of the transports are non-compliant, according to two reports conducted by the NGO World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The non-profit also says that the new Forestry Code is ineffective in addressing these...