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A motion of no confidence in Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue “is inevitable” unless “positive changes” become apparent in the forestry sector, independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice has warned. The caution follows confirmation from the Department that approximately 4,500 forestry licence applications remain backlogged in the forest service – down just 200 since October 2020. It also follows the publication of multiple reports on tackling the issues behind the long-running forestry crisis that resulted in less than 2,500ha of new forests planted in 2020. Speaking on the matter, ...

Today is World Wildlife Day. It will be celebrated this year under the theme 'Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet'.

  EDMONTON -- A northern Alberta municipality is crying foul now that the provincial government is planning to require them to partially cover the costs of future natural disasters. The changes to the Disaster Recovery Program include a new 90:10 cost-sharing arrangement with local governments and private-sector applications, which include homeowners. A $500,000 funding cap per homeowner application has also been introduced, alongside a one-time limit on disaster financial assistance per property. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott says that leaves homeowners in a da...

March 1, 2021 11:46 am Last week (Thursday, February 25), the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine revealed ‘Project Woodland’ – a new strategy to address the issues in the forestry sector. The initiative comes on the back of a report by Jo O’Hara, a private consultant who was formally a British forestry commissioner; the chief forester for Scotland; and the chief executive of Scottish Forestry. Her report was commissioned by the department in the hope that it would suggest ways to implement the recommendations of an earlier report – the Mackinnon Report – into the vario...

SHARING OPTIONS: The new initiative is aimed at solving many of the issues which has mired the forestry sector in recent times, Minister McConalogue said. An new initiative called Project Woodland is to tackle the issues in forestry in Ireland and drive forward the planting of trees, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue and the Minister of State Senator Pippa Hackett have announced. The project is Minister Hackett and the Department’s response to the implementation of the MacKinnon Report, which was delivered in 2019. Under the leadership of...