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The second-round field trip of Integrated Coastal Management Training, supported by Denmark together with the Forest Department in Myanmar, was launched on May 13, 2019 at the Forest Department located …
Denmark supported training on planting mangrove Read More
The Danish Climate Envelope funds a Five-year plan of mangrove reforestation on the Rakhine State. The plan will take action in the degraded mangrove forests in Myebon, Rambre, Tanintharyi’s Myeik …
Denmark funds mangrove reforestation in Rakhine Read More
On 12 December, Finland, Germany and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Myanmar Country Programme have signed agreements for a total of 6.1 million euro to extend …
Finland signed second phase of farming program in Myanmar Read More
After 20 years, IKEA and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have replanted three million rainforest trees in Luasong, Malaysia, to restore 18,000 hectares of severely degraded rainforest. Ulf Johansson, Global …
Ikea has completed replanting of three million trees in Malaysia Read More Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been granted the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for a Smartphone app that helps preventing illegal logging in the Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia. …
Danish researcher wins award for forest-saving app Read More
University of Copenhagen, Danmission, the IT company Web Essentials and local peacebuilding organizations in Cambodia have developed an app for smartphones that helps protecting the forest. The app “Prey Lang …
Smartphones help to save forest in Cambodia Read More
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Jari Leppä visited Shanghai and Beijing on 15-18 May, promoting Finnish food and wood exports and Finnish-Chinese water cooperation. In Shanghai Minister Leppä visited the …
Finnish agriculture minister Jari Leppä visited China Read More
Thai Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, H.E. Pongpol Adireksarn, together with a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture visited Denmark from the 3rd to the 6th of June 1998. “There …
Thailand’s Minister of Agriculture visits Denmark Read More