Mexico’s Forest Commission opened a forest library honouring a Finnish forest researcher Markku Simula, in acknowledgment of the cooperation between the countries.

Petrol keeps gaining, while prices of wood fuel remain flat or even drop, as severe frost lasted only for a couple of weeks.

Our largest water-living predators; we can see them even in daytime in the winter, and such a meeting can be quite amusing, but the observer must stay as unnoticed as possible.

A Swedish hunter, attacked and mauled by a fully grown bear over the weekend, woke in hospital on Tuesday after a nine-hour operation.

Government-run companies are currently stagnating, but this can be remedied by listing the shares of, for instance, Latvenergo and Latvijas Valsts mezi on the stock exchange, as former finance minister and Riga City Council member Edmunds Krastins says in an interview with the Nozare.lv business portal.

Those public companies dealing with actual commercial activities are either stagnating or even declining. The situation can be solved by listing of Latvenergo and Latvian State Forests shares in stock market, says Edmunds Krastins, former People’s Party politician, ex-finance minister and member of Riga City Council.

Forest industry’s investments in Finland increased considerably last year. For this year only slight increase is predicted, but a larger share of new capacity will be built.

The cold weather has forced the weasel family animals out to forage for food. The terror of little birds and animals, the pine marten, is on the move too. Spreading of rabies vaccine meant for foxes has increased the number of pine martens too considerably; moreover hunting has decreased.

Mammadaba together with Latvian Bird Foundation and the MammamunTetiem.lv (For Mothers and Fathers) portal launches a new cycle of exciting educating videos about the various developments in Latvian state forests that will continue all year long.

Turnover of the Lithuania-based furniture producer Vilniaus Baldai during a period October – December, 2011, was 58.941 million litas, during the same period in 2010 it was 55,640 million litas, the company said in a statement.

The best of the best in the forest industry were honoured in a ceremony at the Mežaparks Stage complex on Friday. The annual “Zelta čiekurs” (Golden Pine Cone) Award, the highest recognition for achievement in the forestry sector, was presented to the victors, whereas runners-up were bestowed the “Zelta čiekuriņš” (Small Golden Pine Cone) Award.

The last major seed year for pine occurred in 1988 – and those seeds are still used. In some places the lack of seeds in effect decides forest regeneration methods.

Germany has seen a tenfold jump in the number of women who hunt over the last 15 years, according to the German Hunting Association, heralding the fall of another male bastion. AFP’s Kate Millar reports.

Lithuania-based wood processing company Grigiskes Group has terminated the agreement with Medienos Plausas, the company in bankruptcy, the wodd manufacturing company said in a report.

The newspaper Slītere National Park News 2012 is out! It was made in cooperation with Nature Conservation Agency and Dundaga municipality, financed by Baltic Green Belt Project. The year 2012 is very significant anniversary for nature conservation.