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Latvijas Banka issues a symbolic collector coin, "Chestnut"
The European Innovation Act and the forest bioeconomy – what can Latvian forestry gain from it?
The “Trojan Horse” of Turkish Plywood – Growing Concerns Among European Timber Producers
Nature Conservation Agency invites donations for the restoration of nature tourism infrastructure damaged by the storm

Poll

Concern about gaps in the skills and knowledge of our pupils is voiced quite widely from time to time. Unfortunately, only when someone from outside Latvia has concluded as much. Why is that?
There is a political tendency to be busy, to invest, to make promises, but not to think about the results
If you have little knowledge yourself, you do not even know how or what you do not know...
A smart society is not always desirable or welcome
Many interests swirl around education. A "good result" is rarely mentioned among them

A lighter note

“Why are the trees here so big?”

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Collector coin “Chestnut”
Trees on agricultural land – perennial plantations, short-rotation coppice or agroforestry?!
The Baltics in the Kremlin's sights. How serious is the threat?

In other countries

For Finns, a cultivated spruce is the most beautiful Christmas tree – in the US, 80 per cent of Christmas trees are made of plastic
Harvesters could explode the volume of data from forests
Continued rise in roundwood prices in Sweden
Research report: Climate Smart Forestry could reduce EU’s climate emissions by 20%
Elk love young seedlings – Nature management helps both game and hunters
Human rights for nature?
EU Commission requests Finland to organise a bioeconomy conference next summer
Ecological considerations do not require restrictions on clear-felling
Finnish forest owners and nature conservation
“Greenwashed” timber – why FSC certification happens only in developed countries
Winner of New Wood competition is a see-through wrapping material replacing fossil raw materials with coniferous pulp
Continuous-cover forestry benefits neither forest ecosystems nor the climate
Forest debate: Greenpeace does not demand a total ban on clearcutting – which is just one of the 15 logging methods in Finnish state forests
Finns would replace plastics by using more wood
On 20 October 2018, the Belarusian forestry industry united for the "Clean Forest" campaign
On wildfires and environmental protection in the USA
Is Latvia a Nordic country?
Save our private land: increasingly strict legal regulation limits land development
Finns appreciate forest industry – share of environmental critics only 25 per cent
An Attempt to Smear the Latvian Forestry Sector in Lithuania
Impact of FSC grows stronger in Finnish forests – leverage from risks of non-certified wood
An unprecedented environmental scandal in Sweden?