Sentence examples for big forestry from inspiring English sources

Sino-Forest, a big forestry firm listed in Toronto, is a case in point.

Starting around 1997, some of the more radical European groups began an intensive public relations campaign attacking the big forestry companies for imperiling a supposedly protected forest.

Small farmers sometimes burn trees planted by big forestry companies, and large firms have in turn burnt land to drive out smallholders.But whereas Brazil has abandoned government policies that explicitly encourage deforestation, Indonesia is further behind.

THE BIG FORESTRY DEAL  |  Weyerhaeuser said on Sunday that it planned to acquire Longview Timber from Brookfield Asset Management, gaining 645,000 acres of timberland, for about $2.65 billion.

The forestry industry, which accounts for around 8% of exports and is centred in the worst-hit regions, may be shut down for at least a month because of damage to factories and to transport links, says Charles Kimber of Arauco, a big forestry firm.

But Brazil – despite its critical role protecting the Amazon rain forest – said it was left out of the negotiations, and a number of campaign groups did not sign onto the agreement saying it did not go far enough to protect the rights of indigenous people who rely on the forest, or to hold the big forestry companies to account.

Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., also based in Montreal, is Canada's biggest forestry company.

To remedy this, the government is establishing a big plantation forestry which will make it even harder for the ejidatarios to compete".In terms of economics, community forestry doesn't make much sense," says Juan Manuel Torres Rojo, director-general of the Mexican forestry department.

The International Paper Company, the biggest maker of forestry products and paper, agreed yesterday to sell its Masonite Corporation building-products unit to Premdor Inc. of Canada for $523 million.

Data gaps appear biggest regarding global forestry intensity, for which major advances could be made from maps of broad types of forestry systems (e.g. plantations, agroforestry, managed and unmanaged natural forests, as well as forest harvesting).

The National Trust is the country's biggest farmer, with 2,000 tenants, the biggest landowner after the Forestry commission, and has conducted its annual review for a decade.