Nine NGO from three countries establishes PLANFOR
PLANFOR-The Platform of the Associations of Nature and Forestry has been established by nine NGO from three countries. The establishment of the Platform and the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement was held on June 1, 2016 Wednesday at 2:00 pm at Sarajevo University Faculty of Forestry (http://sfsa.web.ba/v2/). The areas of cooperation designated as follows: […]
The Platform of the Associations of Nature and Forestry – PLANFOR
The Platform of the Associations of Nature and Forestry – PLANFOR Climate change, land degradation, loss of biodiversity and other problems affect the people and the globe as a whole. Combating to these global challenges needs to global efforts not only for the governments and state agencies but also for non- governmental organizations, individuals and […]
Turkey’s Participation to COFO
Turkey’s Participation to COFO The Committee on Forestry (COFO) is the highest FAO Forestry statutory body. The biennial sessions of COFO bring together heads of forest services and other senior government officials to identify emerging policy and technical issues, to seek solutions and to advise FAO and others on appropriate action. Personally I had the […]
A Unique Non-Wood Forest Product: Pine Honey
Pine honey, a very unique non-wood forest product, is a different type of honeydew honey produced in Turkey. The annual production amount as the average of several years is 15.000-30.000 tons. It comes mainly from Muğla province, then the others as Aydın, İzmir, Antalya, Balıkesir. (2014; 20-25.000 tons, 2015; 10-15.000 tons, in extrem years […]
Turkey’s Experiences on Management of Mountain Forests
Mountains occupy nearly 24% of the global land surface and directly support over 12% of the world’s population. One-fifth of humankind derives a vast array of ecosystem goods and services from the mountains, including freshwater, energy, timber, a wide variety of bioresources, and opportunities for recreation and spiritual renewal. Turkey, with land area of 78 million […]
Some Examples of Recent International Developments on Forestry and Mountains
For the last three decades there has been several important developments related to forestry and mountains. The year of 2015 is a kind of milestone. In this paper some recent developments, examples and regulations have been examined. In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, adopted Forest Principles together with Agenda 21, which included […]
Sixth Steering Committee of CPMF (12-13 November 2015)
The Collaborative Partnership on Mediterranean Forests (CPMF) has been launched in 2010 on occasion of a meeting (September 28-October 01, 2010, Richmond Hotel, Istanbul) jointly hosted by General Directorate of Forests (GDF) of Turkey, gtz and Silva Mediterranea. At that time I was working as the Deputy Director General of General Directorate of Forests. I was mainly […]
Workshop on National Forest Funds-Morocco
Money!Money!Money! Money is not all thing for everything but without it nothing is possible. This is also the case for forestry. I am goint to Morocco (11-13 November 2015) in order to participate a workshop organised jointly by FAO, GIZ and Moroccan High Commissariate for Water, Forest and Desertification. The full name of the workshop […]
Observed spatial and temporal variability of precipitation and drought in the Eastern Mediterranean
Shifa Mathbout, Joan Albert López Bustins, and Javier Martin vide University of Barcelona, Physical Geography and Regional Geographical Analysis, Barcelona, Spain (shifamathbout@yahoo.com) The aim of this study is to investigate the spatio-temporal variability and trends of precipitation and droughts across the Eastern Mediterranean. For this purpose, we used daily and monthly precipitation data from 70-103 […]