Forests

Involve marginalised communities in forest conservation

D. Radhakrishnan

Conservation-oriented education should start at the kindergarten level; a firm set of do

Publication Date: 
04/11/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Tamil Nadu
Forests

Community forestry in Nepal: a policy innovation for local livelihoods

The Community Forestry Program in Nepal is a global innovation in participatory environmental governance that encompasses well-defined policies, institutions, and practices. The program addresses the twin goals of forest conservation and poverty reduction.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2009
Ashwini Chhatre, Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Agriculture, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Community Forest Management (CFM), Nepal, Food Security
Environment

The national green tribunal bill, 2009: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests

A Bill to provide for the establishment of a National Green Tribunal for the effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources including enforcement of any legal right relating to environment and giving relief and compensation for damages to persons and property and for matters connected therewith or incidental

Publication Date: 
01/11/2009
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Environment, Water Cess Act 1977, Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1980, Air Act 1981, Legislation, Environment Act 1986, India, Water Act 1974, National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Forests

Centre moots 'green bonus' to encourage reforestation

The Centre is coming out with a new mechanism to encourage states to maintain and enhance forest covers.

The policy which is in the design stage, aims at giving special

Publication Date: 
19/10/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Arunachal, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Forests

State governments 5-year forest plan draws flak

BHUBANESWAR: A day after the Orissa government announced a five-year perspective plan to restore and rejuvenate forests across the State, experts criticised that the ambitious action plan has been drawn without taking ground realities into consideration.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Orissa (Odisha)
Forests

Prevent forest destruction: Minister

Nagercoil: Kanyakumari is the only district where almost all forests are primeval, dense and worth mentioning. Various types of forests from luxuriant tropical wet evergreen forests to southern thorn scrub forests are there in Kanyakumari division because of diverse locality factors varying rainfall from 50 to 130 cm and elevations from sea level to 1,829 meters, said the Tourism Minister, N.

Publication Date: 
14/10/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Tamil Nadu, Kanniyakumari
Forests

Staples And Home Depot Join Effort To Save U.S. Forests

Staples Inc and Home Depot Inc are collaborating with environmental groups in a pilot program aimed at conserving fast-disappearing Southern U.S. forests, organizers said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
09/10/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Trees, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Carbon Sequestration, Habitat, Wildlife, Timber Industry, United States Of America (US)
Environment

The governance of ecosystem services from tropical upland watersheds

Upland watersheds in the tropics provide a range of crucial ecosystem goods and services. How they are governed can be crucial to human well-being and environmental sustainability. Communities, governments and firms have taken many different approaches to sharing these benefits, negotiating trade-offs between them, and allocating the risks and burdens if services are degraded or lost.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Louis Lebel, Rajesh Daniel
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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Tags:
Environment, Common Property Resources, Forest Conservation, Watershed Development, Benefit Sharing, Hydrology, Costa Rica, Global, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Louis Lebel, Rajesh Daniel, Ecosystem Services
Climate Change

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

One way of mitigating global climate change is protecting and enhancing biosphere carbon stocks. The success of mitigation initiatives depends on the long-term net balance between carbon gains and losses. The biodiversity of ecological communities, including composition and variability of traits of plants and soil organisms, can alter this balance in several ways.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Andy Hector, Sandra Daz, David A Wardle
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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1
55
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Carbon Sinks, Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Andy Hector, REDD, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Sandra Daz, David A Wardle
Forests

The first JFM village of Madhya Pradesh revisited

Joint Forest Management in the village Barwani which comes under Timarni tehsil and Timarni development block. The village is a forest village under range Rehatgaon.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Debashis Debnath
IIFM Communique
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Tags:
Forests, Agriculture, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Headloaders, Tribals, Women, Madhya Pradesh, Debashis Debnath, IIFM Communique

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