European bark beetle crisis has far-reaching implications in the global lumber markets
The Central European spruce bark beetle catastrophe is changing domestic industries within Europe and in many global markets [...]
October 21, 2020
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Czech forest owners to receive state compensation for damaged wood
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture collected the 2019 applications for damaged wood compensation for non-state forest owners by the [...]
September 29, 2020
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Bark beetles are ruining Swedish forests at a record pace
The spruce bark beetle has already done as much damage to Sweden’s forests so far this year as in [...]
September 21, 2020
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Sweden: Fears of a second wave of bark beetles after dry August
The Swedish Forest Agency and the forestry have been monitoring the swarms of spruce bark beetles, and their observations show [...]
September 7, 2020
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Germany deploys army in forests in the fight against the bark beetle
In the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate, the German army has been deployed to fight against bark beetles. In the neighboring [...]
August 18, 2020
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China buys bark beetle-infested spruce from Germany, spurning Canada
The bark beetle has been a headache for Andreas Voss, chief wood marketer of Germany's most populous federal state [...]
August 17, 2020
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Germany’s forests decimated by the bark beetle, drought
In Germany, rising temperatures and droughts have made trees more vulnerable to attacks by bark beetles and other insects - That [...]
August 5, 2020
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The climate is putting European forests under sustained pressure, study says
No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018. A first comprehensive analysis of the consequences [...]
July 21, 2020
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Södra adjusts timber prices
Södra adjusts the price for pulpwood, fuel wood and small diameter timber. The supply of pulpwood and [...]
July 20, 2020
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The Swiss wood market marked by coronavirus and bark beetle
The Swiss timber market has so far navigated the pandemic "relatively well", the Swiss Timber Commission (HMK), which met in [...]
July 6, 2020
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