Forests

The Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017

The Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 was promulgated on November 23, 2017. It amends the Indian Forest Act, 1927. Under the Act, the definition of tree includes palms, bamboos, stumps, brush-wood and canes. The Ordinance amends this definition to remove the word bamboos.

Publication Date: 
23/11/2017
Ministry of Law and Justice
Tags:
Forest Act 1927, Forest Policy, India, Trees, Bamboo
Forests

Disempowering democracy: Local representation in community and carbon forestry in Africa

All major agencies intervening in community-based and carbon forestry – such as international development agencies, conservation institutions, and national governments – state that their interventions must engage local participation in decision making. All say they aim to represent local people in the design and implementation of their interventions. In practice, decision-making processes are rarely 'free', barely 'prior' poorly 'informative' and seldom seek any form of democratic 'consent' or even 'consultation'.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2017
Melis Ece, James Murombedzi, Jesse Ribot
Conservation and Society
15
4
357-370
Tags:
Forests, Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, REDD, Forest Management, Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Policy
Forests

Changes needed to the legal framework governing Community Forest Management Agreements

After decades of industrial logging and forest mismanagement, the Liberian government has pledged that it will now only issue forest licenses to the communities who own the forest. This welcome change could be undermined however, by weaknesses in the country’s laws that govern how community forest licenses are awarded and managed.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2017
Global Witness
Tags:
Community Forest Management (CFM), Liberia, Africa, Forest Management, Forest Products, Forest Policy
Forests

Frame forest fire policy in three months: Green Tribunal to govt

The tribunal has also asked the government to ensure participation and cooperation of the local communities and prepare the Forest Fire Management Plan in partnership with the village-level panchay

Publication Date: 
04/08/2017
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Fires, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Forest Management, Forest Policy, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Forests
Environment

Norms violated while granting permission to Yettinahole project: petitioner

The Karnataka government had violated all norms while granting permission to Yettinahole drinking water project near Sakleshpur in Hassan district, petitioner opposing the project charged before th

Publication Date: 
25/07/2017
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Drinking Water, Environmental Security, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Forest Policy, Environmental Health, Environment
Climate Change

How institutions and beliefs affect environmental discourse: Evidence from an eight-country survey on REDD+

This paper investigates the adoption of discourses on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) across different national contexts. It draws on institutional theories to develop and test a number of hypotheses on the role of shared beliefs and politico-economic institutions in determining the discursive choices of policy actors. The results show that win–win ecological modernization discourse, embraced by powerful government agencies and international actors, dominates national REDD+ policy arenas.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2017
Monica Di Gregorioa, Caleb Tyrell Gallemore, Maria Brockhaus & et al
Global Environmental Change
45
133-150
Tags:
REDD, Deforestation, Climate Change, Forest Policy, Statistics, Global, Climate Mitigation, NGOs
Forests

Power and Potential - A comparative analysis of national laws and regulations concerning women's rights to community forests

Up to 2.5 billion people hold and use the world’s community lands, yet the tenure rights of women—who comprise more than half the population of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities—are seldom acknowledged or protected by national laws.

Publication Date: 
24/05/2017
Rights and Resources Initiative
Tags:
Forests, Women, India, Forest Rights Act 2006, Legislation, Forest Policy, Land Ownership, Asia, South America
Forests

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India regarding confiscation of vehicles carrying teak wood by Forest Development Corporation, Dhuma District, Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, 08/05/2017

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Madhya Pradesh & Others Vs Kallo Bai dated 08/05/2017 regarding confiscation of vehicles by the Forest Development Corporation, Dhuma District, Seoni for carrying teak wood without the requisite documents. The offence was registered under Madhya Pradesh Van Upaj (Vyapar Viniyam) Adhiniyam, 1969. The broad scheme of the Adhiniyam is to punish those who are in contravention of the law at the hand of the criminal court.

Judgement Date: 
08/05/2017
Tags:
Forest Products, Seoni (D), Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh, Illegal Trade, Timber Smuggling, Forest Policy
Forests

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding transfer of 159 ha of forest land for non forest purpose, Jammu District, Jammu & Kashmir, 01/05/2017

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nigam Priyae Saroop Vs State of Jammu and Kashmir & Others dated 01/05/2017 regarding transfer of 159 hectares of forest land to the Higher Education Department for establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Nagrota area of Jammu district.

National Green Tribunal dismisses the Application on the count that the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the present controversy as it does not fall within the purview and scope of Section 14 of the NGT Act, 2010 so as to settle the dispute herein.

Judgement Date: 
01/05/2017
Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Jammu & Kashmir
Forests

Forest Fire destroys more than 57,000 sq km of India's woods in 2014

India lost more than 57,000 sq km of jungles – an area larger than Himachal Pradesh - in forest fire in 2014, says India's first scientific estimation of forest fire losses.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2017
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Fires, Western Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India, Forest Policy, Forest Encroachments

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