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Researchers have been drawn to studying the cork oak forest and cork in its many different facets with the aim of working to achieve more cork oak forest and more and better cork. Discovering the [...]

Green Living, by the RSPB, of the United Kingdom, warns that the use of artificial closures is a threat to the cork oak forests of southern Europe, as well as to the people and wildlife that [...]

WWW – World Wide Fund for Nature - works in a number of areas and the protection of the unique natural heritage of the Mediterranean cork oak forests is one of its fields of action. It published [...]

UNAC – Mediterranean Forest Union (www.unac.pt) has one of the results of the "Corknow-how: Networked Cork Knowledge", project available. This is a European Commission initiative promoted by the [...]

The StarTree project wants to bring the scientific community, forest owners, companies and business partners closer together in order to put non-timber forest products (NTFP) in the focus of [...]

The environmental services of the cork oak forest are valued at least 100 euros per year per hectare. The study conducted by Corticeira Amorim and CE Liège, attributed a value to the [...]

The enhancement of the cork oak and associated biodiversity is one of the strategic sustainability axes of Corticeira Amorim. The awarding of a prize for best cork oak forest management [...]

The first results of the sequencing of the cork oak, Portugal's National Tree, should be known by the end of 2015. The tree chosen for this research is planted on an estate in Montargil. The [...]