Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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The distribution of powers and responsibilities affecting forests, land use, and REDD+ across levels and sectors in Tanzania
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+)
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The economics of climate change mitigation options in the forest sector. summary report
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has issued a publication containing key messages from the February 2015 International Online Conference on the 'Economics of Climate Change Mitigation
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Protecting forests necessary to conserve environment
Bhopal Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that protecting forests is necessary to conserve environment. Human race will not survive if forests are not saved. The Chief Minister was addressing
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Centre to set up empowered committee for protecting environment: Javadekar
The Union Minister of state for Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar today said the Modi Government is decentralising its functions to speed up and also to ensure people’s interest.
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Kenyan youths renounce crime to protect forests
Groups of reformed youths who once sold drugs and stole from their neighbours are helping protect trees in rural central Kenya from illegal loggers. The young adults, whose previous activities were
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China to ban all logging of forests in distinctly green new five-year plan
The Communist Party has vowed to completely ban logging in natural forests for commercial purposes in the next five years. In March, authorities announced plans to outlaw commercial logging in certain
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Transforming Mountain forestry in the Hindu Kush Himalayas: toward a third-generation forest management paradigm
A five-day international symposium on ‘Transforming Mountain Forestry’ was held in Dehradun, India from 18 to 22 January 2015 to explore options for sustainable forest management practices and policies
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Regenerating forests and livelihoods in Nepal: a new lease on life
This book seeks to capture the leasehold forestry experience, with a special focus on the Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme, which has been a critical part of the leasehold forestry experience
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AAP govt announces first-ever 'tree census' in Delhi
The Delhi government on Thursday decided to get the capital's first-ever tree census done by a "third party", essentially an NGO, to arrive at a factual figure of the number of trees in the city. The
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Swathes of native forest in collapse, say conservation groups
Swathes of native forest are in collapse, conservation groups say, with neglect and a lack of pest control to blame for the crisis. Forest and Bird said drone footage released today showed dead and