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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Ownership plan to save forest resources
The government plans to offer forest ownership to people living in forests and their peripheries as part of a campaign to promote and protect the country's dwindling forest resources.
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Co-management options for plantations development: A case study from district Sirmour of Himachal Pradesh
Optimization of ecosystem goods and services from plantations depend on their sustainable production, protection and management. So far, the objective of attaining optimum production of environmental goods and services has remained a far cry due to uncontrolled exploitation, ignorance and inefficient management strategies.
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Trick or treat? REDD, development and sustainable forest management
This report identifies risks associated with including sustainable forest management (SFM) within the scope of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). It describes how SFM has often become associated with destructive industrial-scale logging that fails to deliver development benefits, and is frequently a pre-cursor to the conversion of forests to other land uses.
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India: taking on climate change - twenty recent initiatives related to climate change
This document details the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Ministry of environment and Forests to address the issue of climate change. These are in the field of forestry, energy efficiency, research agenda and CDM capacities.
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Jairam Ramesh on forests and climate change
This video presents the talk by Jairam Ramesh, India
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Genekhas goldmine
Thimphu dzongkhag administration yesterday handed over the Genekha forest to the community to manage the Sangay shamu (Matsutake) rich forest.
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Nakhuti new addition to WB-funded JFMCs
In order to revive the loss of forest cover and environmental degradation in Assam, the State Forest department, to garner support and direct involvement of people of fringe forest villages, accepted the concept of
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PM wants fresh thinking from states on environment
Manmohan SinghIt was the economist Prime Minister who spoke to state environment ministers today, when he said states should explore mobilising additional resources for river cleaning through innovative models like Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
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Hundreds of forests remapped for protection
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday said that it had completed a Forest Resources Management Project aimed at establishing and operating sustainable forest management for forest protection and conservation in Sri Lanka. The project which commenced in 2001 was implemented in 18 districts other than areas in the war-torn North and East, ministry officials said.