Canadian Forests and Japan.

Japan is a priority market for the export-oriented agricultural and forestry sectors. Last year, Alberta agri-food exports to Japan totaled $1.2 billion, with forestry product exports adding another $290 million.

And we are talking about climate change.
Alberta Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier, “It’s my first trade mission, so I’m pretty open whatever might happen out of it,” he says, “but if we can get any kind of agreement or trade deal that can expand our lumber or agriculture in Japan I would count it as a success.”

Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. (DMI) is an integrated forest products company.

DMI manages about 2.9 million hectares of public forestland in Alberta under a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) signed with province of Alberta.  A Detailed Forest Management plan forecasts harvesting operations for a period of 20 years into the future and is updated every 10 years.

Links

http://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=3885717776BF4-B262-C3CF-58BA60304924D1C0 

http://www.inews880.com/2015/11/22/alberta-ag-minister-hunts-for-trade-deals-in-japan/

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/26/business/huge-forest-fire-nears-canada-oil-sands-mines-forcing-10-output-cut/#.VuxbIOYYFPl 

http://www.dmi.ca/

Guinness Reforestation Record in 2015 for Ecuador

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 365-365

You often hear saddening statistics about the rate of deforestation from ecologically-minded friends and the news, but how often do you hear about the good that is being carried out to reverse environmental damage?

On May 16, 2015, thousands of people gathered to volunteer and reforest the Earth. They planted 220 different species of flora on almost 5,000 acres of land, setting a new Guinness World Record.

President Rafael Correa said the seedlings were planted all over Ecuador, which boasts varied geography from its Pacific coast, high Andean peaks and low Amazon basin areas.
 
Environment Minister Lorena Tapia said on Twitter that 44,883 people planted the trees on more than 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land.

Guinness Records adjudicator Carlos Martinez, said hundreds of varieties were planted as part of the mass reforestation effort.
 

National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

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National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: 
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National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: 
 "http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-Reforestation-Day-Breaks-Guinness-Record-20150516-0015.html". If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english

"There is no record in history of similar events involving over 150 species,"

"I want to beat it once a month so the planet will be full of trees in very little time, which is what we need."

The Philippines holds the record for the most trees planted in an hour, with 3.2 million seedlings sown last September as part of a national forestation program.
 
Scientists believe planting trees helps offset carbon buildup in the atmosphere, as they absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, helping to reduce global warming.

Ecuador holds several other world records, including the most plastic bottles recycled in one week.


 

Consciousness of a Tree

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 364-365

The inner senses of the tree have a strong affinity with the properties of the earth itself.
They feel their growing, as you listen to your hearth bit.

They also experience pain which while definite unpleasant and sometimes agonizing,  is not an emotional nature in the same way that you might feel pain.  

A tree knows human beings also, by the vibrations in the air as they pass, which hit the tree trunk from varying distances and even by such things as voices. The tree does not build up an image of man but a composite sensation which represents an individual. 

The same tree will recognize the same person who passes it by each day.  

Trees have their own consciousness. The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes the trees is conscious of 50 years before its existence and 50 years hence. 

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the changes of its own form, 

It has no ego to cut the I identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.

A simple tree deals with the nature of probabilities as it trusts forward into new seeds. The tree knows the present and future history but it understands a future that is not preordained. It feels its own power in the present as it constructs that future. 

In deeper terms the tree's seeds also realize that there is a future there a variety of futures toward which they grope.

from "The Unknown Reality A Seth Book" By Jane Roberts and Robert F Butts