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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Managing for a whole forest
For Bob Jackson, the most important factor in forest management is the direction, not the speed or efficiency. Results are created one day at a time. Since, they bought the land in 1970, Bob Jackson and Leo Goebel have been managing 160 acres of Douglas fir, white fir, Ponderosa pine, and larch on the north slope of the Wallowas.
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The economic aspect of ecoforestry
Through this article the author wants to give information that can be adapted and applied anywhere by people who wish to know how one can restore and sustainably use depleted forest resources.
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Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Western Ghats region of Kerala
<p>This study of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in the Western Ghats of Kerala identifies the main constraints to the working of the legislation. Community rights and conservation provisions seem to be ignored.
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Forest resource assessment in Nepal
<p>The purposes of the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) Nepal project are to assess forest resources and tree resources outside forest and to provide fresh data on the state, use, management and trends of these resources. The assessment covers a large range of biophysical areas and provides a broad and holistic view of land use for the country as a whole.
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India's Forest Rights Act: the anatomy of a necessary but not sufficient institutional reform
<p>This recent paper examines Forest Rights Act 2006 to analyse whether its detailed provisions are likely to fulfil its ambitious mandate. It discusses the complementary institutional reform required for strengthening the law’s provisions & the limited attention this has so far received.</p>
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Exploring opportunities for linking forest communities with carbon markets under UNFCCC
This paper attempts a comparative analysis of three carbon management studies (two project design documents and a feasibility study) which seek to benefit community level institutions for their forest management and conservation efforts.
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Existing forest area to remain intact: Gogoi
The State Government will retain the existing forest area of the State intact at any cost. The Government will also involve those forest dwellers, who have been allowed to stay inside the forest by the legislation on the right of the forest dwellers, in the process of forest management, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi here today. He was replying to a question at a press conference.
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State Forest Development Agency inaugurated
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In an initiative to bring the benefits of growth and development to the adivasis, the State Forest Development Agency (SFDA) was inaugurated here on Thursday by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.
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Japan International Coop. Agency experts to visit forest areas
P. Oppili CHENNAI: A team of experts from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will visit forest areas in Sathyamangalam, Coimbatore and the Nilgiris for three days from next Monday to approve funding for the State Forest Department's Natural Resources Management Project.
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Sabari rail project: Sacred groves to make way
Rohith Raj K KOCHI: Even while the government is busy adopting measures to protect the sacred groves (kavu) in the State, the Railways is all set to do away with around 10 groves in the district for the Sabari Rail project. Recently, the district administration held a meeting with 10 landowners in the Angamaly-Perumbavoor region in connection with evicting people for the rail project.