It was clear in this context that arsonists, who profit by destroying forests, are encouraged by shortcomings in or the lack of forest registers, or by poorly defined land use.

It was clear in this context that arsonists, who profit by destroying forests, are encouraged by shortcomings in or the lack of forest registers, or by poorly defined land use.

Often forest fires, as was recently the case in Greece, are due to poorly designed and conflicting forestry and housing policies, which encourage arson and illegal action to obtain forest land.

The despicable blackmail by the government and the Prime Minister had ended, but the president of the FTQ, which has 500,000 members in Quebec and a strong presence in the paper and forestry sector, added this: “Quebec is not getting its fair share. The sectors that are worst off are not getting their fair share—”.

M. whereas both the IPCC and Stern reports confirm that developing countries are particularly threatened by climate change because of their higher exposure and vulnerability; whereas human-induced climate change will result in harmful impacts on farming and hydrological systems, forests, fisheries, health and economic infrastructure and whereas such impacts will exacerbate poverty and pose a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals,

- For Algeria, a grant of 2 500 000 ECU for training in the forestry sector Algeria has a total of approximately 1.3 million ha of forest, 700 000 ha of forestry plantation and 2 million ha of scrub ; the forestry services are faced with the problem of managing wooded areas which are dwindling under the pressure of uncontrolled illegal exploitation and with the task of improving and protecting these areas in order to stabilize and increase national wood production and thus reduce the country's dependence on imports of wood and wood products. The aim of this project is to carry out a stage-by-stage reform of Algeria's forestry training s ...[+++]tructure by providing support for four training centres (at Telagh, Jijel, Geni-Slimane and Batna).