“Latvijas valsts meži” (LVM) has started the sales process for wood chips for the 2023/2024 heating season and has announced a call for applications for the purchase of wood chips within the framework of long-term cooperation. The sales procedure offers 650,000 bulk m3 of wood chips across the territory of Latvia.

 

...from 8 March, sowing of forest seedlings has gradually begun in the largest nurseries of joint-stock company “Latvijas valsts meži” (LVM) – Mazsili, Strenči, Mežvidi, and Podiņi. In the Mazsili, Strenči, and Mežvidi nurseries, pine is sown first as the initial cycle to produce container-grown pine seedlings, while in the Podiņi nursery, spruce is sown in accordance with the specific nature of the nursery to produce spruce seedlings with improved root systems.

 

If you want to talk about fuel peat pellets and briquettes, we are still allowed to for now, as their production and use is permitted until 2030. After that, discussing this topic might become dangerous...

 

“Rīgas meži” invites young people to apply for Shadow Day. This year, the company is offering 22 vacancies in forestry divisions, the “Gardens and Parks” department, the Environmental Education Centre, and the office – both in Riga and outside the capital.

 

The Institute of Horticulture has put two difficult years behind it. The stranglehold of energy bills, which forced the institute to worry about its survival, has now eased and allows for a more optimistic look at the future.

 

In February, stability continued in the timber market, with firewood prices continuing a steady but slow decline. As the end of the heating season approaches, the drop in firewood prices is a logical result, and this trend is expected to continue over the coming months, with firewood prices reaching their lowest point in May.

 

Like other agricultural sectors, crop and livestock farming are constantly developing and looking for new ways to improve management while causing as little damage to the environment as possible. One approach is the development of fertilizers from natural raw materials.

 

 

The prosperity of the Latvian state and its people is based on the development of the economy and business. For the sake of sustainable economic growth, it is necessary to increase exports and productivity in business and the education system. Therefore, it is essential to identify the factors hindering the business environment, analyze them, and find solutions by clearly defining an action plan. It must be understood that the higher the index of Latvia's business environment, the lower the volume of the shadow economy.

 

After a two-year break, those engaged in economic activity must again pay tax advances, which must be done by 23 March. Now, in great haste, the Minister of Finance promises to try to abolish this requirement.

 

 

tvnet.lv · foto ka izskatisies riga pec rail baltic izbuvesanas
Throughout the zone designated for infrastructure reconstruction, the project provides for safer mobility solutions for pedestrians and cyclists, landscape improvement, and landscaping. The pedestrian tunnel on Gogoļa Street near the Central Market will be rebuilt into a bicycle storage facility. On Maskavas and Gogoļa streets, the project also provides for the reconstruction of tram and trolleybus contact networks. As part of the project, two bridges over the city canal will be rebuilt – on Maskavas Street and on Ģenerāļa Radziņa Embankment.

 

It is important to us that 23 trains are delivered this year. This is a sufficiently large volume that we could effectively replace almost the entire existing fleet. According to our plans, there is [an intention] to increase intensity; of course, the old trains will remain, but they will become a rarity next year, and we will not be able to see them so often. If everything goes according to plan – and we are waiting for news in the near future on how these tests will end – and if there are no surprises in April and May, then I think that, as planned – by the end of summer, the beginning of autumn – these trains will be in service.

 

Following a conversation with the Minister of Transport, the information distributed by the Road Transport Administration (ATD) indicates that it will announce a new procurement for the provision of passenger transport in the “Cēsis” and “Sigulda, Limbaži” parts of the route network. The decision was reportedly made based on the facts stated in the Administrative Court’s judgment, as well as the cartel previously uncovered by the Competition Council, one of whose participants was also “Nordeka”.

 

 

 

Hunters have to fight many battles on a daily basis, both in protecting their way of life and in thinking about the future and nature conservation. While we each hunt according to local traditions and laws, the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FACE) fights every day for our opportunities and rights to hunt not only today but also tomorrow. There are many attempts to restrict and even ban hunting.

 

On 16 March, the European Union (EU) Environment Council took place in Brussels, where a general agreement on the proposal for the Industrial Emissions Directive was planned. Discussions also covered various priorities in the environmental field – prevention of packaging waste generation, collection, treatment, and discharge of municipal and industrial wastewater, as well as an exchange of views on greening the European Semester and the carbon removal certification system.

 

...there is a lack of a comprehensive strategy for the use of subsoil, a lack of complete, high-quality, and timely information about the country's mineral resources, a lack of structured data and risk-based inspections, and the regulations regarding the recultivation of mineral extraction sites are incomplete.

 

Latvia's mineral resources are a valuable asset in terms of both nature and the national economy, which is of interest to both the state and the private sector. Consequently, the supervision and coordination of the subsoil sector is a complex, cross-sectoral issue that requires the involvement of many parties to resolve.

 

In the vicinity of Lake Usma, LVM environmental expert Gaidis Grandāns has observed the pine crossbill, which is very rare throughout Latvia. The environmental expert identified a pair of crossbills in a habitat suitable for nesting. Both pine crossbills and the relatively common spruce crossbills are among the earliest nesting bird species in Latvia.

 

With the arrival of spring, flocks of migratory geese will appear in the fields, happy to rest and refuel for their onward journey between flights. To scare migratory birds away from crops and reduce the damage caused, farmers growing the most at-risk crops, such as cereals and legumes, can apply to the Nature Conservation Agency (the Agency) for limited lethal scaring permits for migratory geese.

 

Latvian and Riga environmental and animal protection non-governmental organizations have not had the opportunity to participate in discussions at the Housing and Environment Department’s Hunting Coordination Commission meetings, nor to review or challenge the decisions made. Despite the European Community Council Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, hunters in Latvia kill 20,000–30,000 beavers annually, as the Animal Protection Law does not apply to game species, emphasizes the initiator of the movement.

 

ir.lv · energetikas zalais mezgls 

The shocks caused by the war in the European energy sector were, literally and figuratively, an electroshock for Latvia, followed by a powerful explosion of ideas and reflections. We are not only redefining the content and objectives of our energy policy but are trying to focus the desired development on specific targets.