The Biodiversity video won the first prize, as you can see here!
International Year of Forests
Wednesday 8 June 2011
PRIZE IN PORTUGAL
The Biodiversity video won the first prize, as you can see here!
Monday 6 June 2011
1. winner of World Environment Day in Europe
Our project "IYF" and my own project "NATURE BASED EDUCATION" together have become
1. winner of WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY in Europe!
Congratulations to all!!! :)
Tuğba YÜKSEL
Friday 3 June 2011
Recent & Future Projects in BEYKOZ DOGA COLLEGE FOREST
Recent Projects related to “BEYKOZ DOGA COLLEGE FOREST”
Recently, some camels, ostriches were brought to provide students and people seeing unique species in Beykoz Doga College Forest. Many new tree species were planted. Some huts and animal houses were built. The stream in the middle of the forest was cleaned by the students and the teachers.
The next project of BEYKOZ DOGA COLLEGE FOREST will be held about enlarging the forest and planting more trees and feeding the animals.
Tuğba YÜKSEL
P.S. I'd like to present my thanks to all the partners for their participation in this project, IYF.
Thursday 19 May 2011
PINHAL DE LEIRIA'S HISTORICAL FEATURES
On a less known version, Queen Isabel, to whom her husband D. Dinis had given this lands, is presented as the main responsible for its soaring, as soon as she knew of a special pine specie that could easily grow on sandy soil.
However, it is to King Dinis, the Farmer (1261-1325) that is given the responsibility of this area’s sowing, development and arrangement. Therefore, this enormous area of forest is still known as the King’s Pine Forest.
Someone named it as the “Greatest Portuguese Monument” due to its important role in local and national development, across the years.
Since the beginning this pine forest had the important function to hold sand and salt that invaded fertile lands on interior, allowing, this way, farming. In the first early centuries of nationality the forest offered wood for ship building that would be used for development of fishing, for maritime trade and later on maritime expansion. During the Philippine period (1580-1640) the forest’s limits were defined.
In the eighteen century new regulations were created in order to increase the development, effective good use and defense of Leiria’s wood. As consequence raw materials were supplied to the famous glass factory of Marinha Grande (near city), founded by William Stephens.
In 1867 a study of Bernardino Barros Gomes divided the forest into rectangles in order to achieve a better management of it.
In 1980 another study allowed to calculate the total area of the Forest – more than 11000 hectares.
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Project Earth® | NATURE BASED EDUCATION
Sunday 8 May 2011
CONSIDERATION ON THE UPPER FOREST LIMIT IN THE „MUNŢII RODNEI” NATIONAL PARK
In the
The forest species that can be found most often at the upper limit of the forest is the Picea Abies. There are situations when the superior limit of the forest is made up of other species as well: the Fagus sylvatica (in the south and south-west), the Sorbus aucuparia, the Betula pendula, and the Pinus cembra (in the east). In most cases, however, the height of limiting trees in
The forests’ upper limit is, mostly, artificially lowered due to the anthropic pressure in the transition area between the forest belt and the sub-alpine belt. Here, deforestation activities aiming at the expansion of grazing fields and obtaining wood, conducted mainly throughout the past century, have had a main effect in the destruction of savins and spruce open woods, and in the deforestation of large areas covered in forests. Since spruce forests make up the upper-most belt in Rodnei Mountains, and softwood timber is the main matter destined for the internal and external market, or used in the reinforcing of mining galleries, it is easy to understandthe downwards expansion of terrains occupied by sub-alpine and alpine grazing fields following deforestation.
The natural limit is usually found where the terrain is not easily accessible, especially on the northern slope of
Friday 6 May 2011
The information about Sığla Forest-Dalaman
Sığla tree comes up rarely in Muğla and Its enviroment.and Also you can meet Sığla forests in Rodos and China too.
Why is the Sığla oil used in parfume?
Sığla oil has a different smell and at first It is used for its natural aromatic smell.the second reason maybe It is the most important one is the oil is used in pefumes to fix the smell of the perfumes and avoid the disapper of the perfume in short time.It is like a fixer.In this way It is possible to have a perfume which smells for days and weeks.