Despite being a commercial forest that is sustainably logged for wood, the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Sabah, which is an area of approximately 550km square kilometres, holds all five wild Bornean cat species.
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Elephants were once used in large numbers to transport wood from the forest.
But the long-term prospects for biomass are best with non-food based feedstocks such as switchgrass, wood chips and forest residues.
Over decades, he built up his private Kraft Group--which includes holdings in paper and wood company International Forest Products, real estate and a private equity firm--into a fully integrated, billion-dollar company.
Soon, the rattle of a chainsaw fills the air and the staccato sound of chopping wood echoes around the forest.
The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.
The study was conducted by David Kille, Amanda Forest and Joanne Wood at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, and will be published soon in Psychological Science.
The specimen may be the oldest of its kind found in the region, surpassing wood from the Axel Heiberg fossil forest in northern Canada by millions of years.
To further their understanding of what was going on, Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro then joined forces with Frank Wood and his colleagues at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.
It's a wood called pernambuco that comes from the forest--the coastal forests of Brazil.
"It may sound counter-intuitive, but performing well in a fire is something inherent in large piece of wood, that's why in forest fires the trees that survive are the largest ones, " he says.
The Internet has littered the forest floor with the dry kindling wood of creation, and entrepreneurs are walking through throwing lit matches.
Meanwhile, the US Forest Service has been deriving cellulose nanocrystals from wood pulp extract to create a material that's stronger than Kevlar and carbon fiber.
Professing to be an architectural icon in a liveable city core, this giant structure, purported to be the largest wood structure in the world, is best described as a forest of mushrooms welded onto a flying waffle.
For example, Mitsui announced recently that it has acquired two Australian forestry companies: Great Southern Timber Holdings, which specializes in forest planting, and Hansol, a company that processes and exports wood chips.
Sino-Forest is a Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise that harvests, processes, and sells wood from leased or owned tree plantations in various Chinese provinces.
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Since the wood was destined for pulping, the size and quality of trees were unimportant, and vast stretches of forest were cut.
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