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		<title>From Farmer to Plantation Owner</title>
		<link>http://www.forestry-invest.com/2010/from-farmer-to-plantation-owner/367</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 the national farm income in Ireland was down 25% on 2008 and the year on year fall in product prices coupled with cuts in farm schemes has provoked renewed interest in forestry.
Forestry provides an attractive alternative to farmers faced with challenging times ahead as it contributes to the bottom line from the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Timber in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Tony Hu, managing director of Toronto’s Monarch Corp. in Shanghai developers are raising less than 600 wood framed houses each year and few of the approximate 1.3 billion people living in China have the luxury of calling a house with a garden their home.
“What I&#8217;m talking about is 100 per cent two-by-four housing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forests of the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking of the forests of the ocean you might be forgiven for thinking that I am talking about coral. But it is whales that are referred to as forests of the ocean due to their ability to store large amounts of carbon in their bodies. Much like when a tree is cut down, whales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Loggers Destroy Community Forest Programme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that community forestry programmes in Indonesia are becoming a victim of their own success. Illegal loggers in Lampung not satisfied with their territory in the Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas national parks are now targeting reforestation areas managed under community forestry programmes.
West Lampung Forestry Office head Fauzi said large volumes of illegally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN climate change group now includes Guyana</title>
		<link>http://www.forestry-invest.com/2010/un-climate-change-group-now-includes-guyana/354</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched a new high level group aimed at addressing climate change. Heading the group will be the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. The aim is to mobilise financing to aid developing countries in order to combat the effects of rising temperatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The F-11 Becomes the F-14</title>
		<link>http://www.forestry-invest.com/2010/the-f-11-becomes-the-f-14/350</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported that eleven tropical rainforest countries met on Tuesday. Among them were: Indonesia, Brazil, Gabon, Costa Rica, Congo, Cameroon, Colombia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Democratic Republic of Congo.
At that ministerial meeting, held in Indonesia’s Bali province, they all agreed to commit to a sustainable forest management system.
The group otherwise known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Oil Plantations, Now Classified as Forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been announced that the Indonesian Forestry Ministry is drafting a decree that will include palm oil plantations in the forest sector to comply with international standards in reducing carbon emissions. Hikmat Soeriatanuwijava a Greenpeace Indonesia media campaigner warned that the policy involving converting palm oil plantations into forest could lead to massive forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian Plantation Forests to Meet Global Demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with ongoing international pressure against deforestation and illegal logging, globally tropical forests are being destroyed at a rate of approximately 13 million ha per year. This is roughly four times the size of Belgium and this destruction is responsible for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions (this is more than all the world’s planes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forestry Investments Cut Down Portfolio Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.forestry-invest.com/2010/forestry-investments-cut-down-portfolio-risk/338</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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As an investor have you ever considered buying trees to enhance your investment portfolio? For the past twenty years forestry investments have been gaining a reputation as a sound alternative to stocks and bonds. They have gained interest from both institutional and retail investors for their diversification and inflation hedging characteristics. The forestry sector is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$4 Billion Investment in Brazil’s Sustainable Forestry Plantations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back 2009 could be considered as a turning point for the forestry sector. During the time of global economic crisis where businesses were losing money regardless of which sector they were in forestry (while taking a hit) was seen as a rock (rather than a tree). In recent months the industry has bounced back [...]]]></description>
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