Source: Excellence in Forestry Awards to showcase Wales

Forest dept regist­ered 7,910 cases in 2013. Source: Backlog: 5,982 cases of timber smuggling pending in K-P – The Express Tribune

Proposal to turn 500,000 hectares of the Great Western Woodlands in Western Australia into farmland would undermine Direct Action, say green groups Source: Farming on Australia’s largest woodland ‘would release 40m tonnes of carbon’ | Australia news | The Guardian

Source: Malaysia’s indigenous hit hard by deforestation – Al Jazeera English

In rural Kinangkung, water is what keeps the lights on. Source: Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Investigative organization Global Witness advocates shuttering the Central African Republic’s timber trade with the EU. Source: ‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

A species of ant is thriving in a relatively new forest made up of mostly non-native trees. Biologists are calling it a conservation success story. Source: Ants feel at home in this ‘foreign’ forest – Futurity

Scientists are investigating how this cypress can help manage wildfires around the world. Source: These trees can survive a forest fire | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Here is a quick way to identify 15 of the most common and important hardwoods in North America. You can quickly identify these trees using bark, twigs and fruit. Source: Identify 15 Major Hardwood Species Using Twigs in Winter