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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472 JFMC working for forest management in Tripura
AGARTALA, Aug 10: In a bid to protect, conserve and develop the degraded forest areas, the State Government has constituted as many as 472 Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMC) with local communities.
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India demands forestry credit, says just gas-cut sops wont do
New survey to strengthen country
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Conserve forests involving people dependent on them
US Ambassador James F Moriarty has said forests in Bangladesh will be depleted in less than 15 years if the current rate of destruction continues unabated. He called for immediate interventions by the government, otherwise millions of people who are dependent on forests, will lose their livelihoods.
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State green cover shrinking, says Centre
The Centre has finally confirmed shrinkage of green cover in Assam, interestingly attributing it to
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Climate change negotiations: Indias submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The international negotiations on climate change are on and all Parties of UNFCCC are working to reach an agreed outcome at Copenhagen in December 2009. This latest publication encapsulates the major submissions made by India to the UNFCCC during 2008 and 2009. Of particular note are India
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Intensification of forest management: operational guidelines
The operational guidelines for "scheme on intensification of forest management". This scheme addresses both the general problems of forest protection and the area specific requirements for management intervention. It is aimed at modernizing the forestry sector and improving the working conditions at the cutting edge level.
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Investing in land stewardship: GEFs efforts to combat land degradation and desertification globally
This booklet contains several examples of projects in the land degradation focal area and notes synergies in combating climate change. Land degradation affects more than 33 percent of the planet
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Major programme to regenerate forest cover
Smriti Kak Ramachandran GURGAON: India
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Forest policies have a political agenda: Expert
FOREST conservation in the central Western Ghats of south India was shaped by colonial and post-colonial desires to create a modern, improved and ordered landscape primarily through promoting a plantationbased economy. In the process, forest dependent com- munities were marginalised
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Meeting environmental challenges: the role of human identity
The epochal scale of today