Forests

Program Promotes Living Off Forests, Without Felling Trees

As Cambodia’s tree cover recedes due to legal and illegal logging, people who live off the forests gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to brainstorm ways to improve the fledgling green economy and in

Publication Date: 
20/05/2015
Cambodia Daily
Tags:
Forests, Cambodia, Deforestation, Illegal Trade, Tribals, Forest Products
Wildlife

Conservation policy making in Nepal: Problematising the politics of civic resistance

Protected area governance has witnessed a shift from a strict-nature conservation model towards a seemingly more participatory approach in Nepal. Despite some progress, top-down and non-deliberative processes characterise policy making in protected area. However, many civil society actors have increasingly challenged the government to provide space for local people in decision making so that their rights to natural resources are considered.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2015
Ramesh Kumar Sunam, Dipak Bishwokarma, Kumar Bahadur Darjee
Conservation & Society
13
2
179-188
Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, Nepal, South Asia, Benefit Sharing, National Parks, Landless, Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Wildlife, Tiger
Forests

No more Katha for paan lovers from Khaer forest

Forest attracts rainfall but the Khaer trees in Paton block of rain-shadow Palamau district attracted smugglers, turning the costly Khaer forest that produced delicious katha for paan (beetle) love

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
Santosh K Kiro
Pioneer (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Trees, Forest Products, Forest Rights Act 2006, Deforestation, Forests
Forests

Home-grown tag for forest products

New Delhi, March 23: A consortium of industry and government experts has launched an agency to grant domestic certification of forests that will help forest products from India bound for export mar

Publication Date: 
24/03/2015
Telegraph (Kolkata)
Tags:
India, Forests, Forest Products, Europe, United States Of America (US), Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Exports
Forests

Redefining forest: Govt to consult ADCs again

SHILLONG: Forest and Environment Minister Prestone Tynsong said that the State Government will be able to take a call on the demand to re-define ‘forest’ again only after holding a consultation wi

Publication Date: 
11/02/2015
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Meghalaya, Forests, Bamboo, Forest Clearance, Khasi Hills, Forest Products
Forests

Co-operative procurement and marketing of tendu leaves in Madhya Pradesh

The collection and sale of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) forms a significant part of the livelihoods of forest fringe communities in India, with an estimated 10-27 crore people involved in it.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2015
Sharachchandra Lele, R. Venkat Ramanuja, Jeetesh Rai
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Tendu, Forest Products, Economy, Panchayats, Forest Rights Act 2006
Forests

2013 global forest products facts and figures

Global production of all major wood products continued to show steady growth in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year, according to new data published by FAO.

Publication Date: 
18/12/2014
FAO
Tags:
Forest Products, Trade, India, China, Statistics, Paper and Pulp Industry, Charcoal, Firewood, Europe, N C America, Exports, Asia, Africa
Forests

The importance of mangroves to people: a call to action

Mangroves are being destroyed at a rate 3 - 5 times greater than the average rates of forest loss, costing billions in economic damages and denying millions of people the ecosystem services they need to survive, according to a new report by UNEP.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2014
Jan-Willem van Bochove, Emma Sullivan, Takehiro Nakamura
UNEP
Tags:
Mangroves, Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Biodiversity, India, Global, Tropical Forests, Forest Products, Sundarbans, Fisheries, Coastal Development
Forests

Stay on red sanders auction: A.P. to file counter before NGT

The State government will file a counter affidavit in the next couple of days before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking to vacate the stay given by it on the auction of seized red sanders lo

Publication Date: 
23/09/2014
Hindu (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Sandalwood, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Forests, Forest Products
Wildlife

Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked, together with the mechanisms that may weaken or strengthen those linkages, is of utmost importance. However, such integrated information is lacking.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2014
Neil H. Carter, Andrés Viña, Vanessa Hull & et al
Ecology and Society
19
3
1-18
Tags:
Wildlife, Wildlife And People, Ecosystems, National Parks, Nepal, China, Tiger Conservation, Endangered Species, Wildlife Management, Protected Area Conservation, Forest Products, Ecosystem Services, People - Animal Conflicts

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