Forests

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Tags:
Forests, India, Parliament, Statistics, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Resources
Environment

Eco-tourism park to come up in Mayurbhanj

The Odisha government is considering setting up an eco-tourism park in the Manchabandha Reserve in Baripada territorial forest division.
A project for wildlife conservation in the area is also in the pipeline, forest department sources said.
Nearly 822 hectares of lush green forest area has been earmarked for the projects.
The area is covered with dense Sal vegetation.
Of the total area, 210 h

Publication Date: 
07/06/2011
Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Ecotourism, Forests, Wildlife Tourism, Joint Forest Management (JFM)

REDD+ benefit sharing: a comparative assessment of three national policy approaches

This paper reviews three leading forest sector policy approaches relevant to benefit-sharing for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): payments for ecosystem services,

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
John Costenbader
UN-REDD Programme
Tags:
REDD, Benefit Sharing, Forest Policy, Forest Management, Ecosystem Services, Asia, India, Global, Community Forest Management (CFM), Joint Forest Management (JFM), Deforestation
Forests

Misreading the issues and the landscape

This response to the comment “Protecting India’s Protected Areas” by Praveen Bhargav and Shekar Dattatri (23 April 2011) points out the authors’ misreading of the Forest Rights Act and also of the report of the Joint Committee on the FRA.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2011
Sharachchandra Lele, Ashish Kothar, Roma & et al
Economic and Political Weekly
46
22
107-108
Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, India, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forest Management, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Forest Policy, Wildlife, Public Participation, Forest Conservation
Forests

Rights, responsibilities and resources: examining community forestry in South Asia

This paper seeks to understand whether decentralized management of forests can reduce forest loss in developing

Publication Date: 
01/05/2011
Priya Shyamsundar, Rucha Ghate
South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
Tags:
Community Forest Management (CFM), South Asia, Nepal, India, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Conservation, Forest Policy
Forests

Integrated land and ecosystem management project

The Integrated Land and Ecosystem Management Project is being implemented by the Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Global Environmental Facility. The project is being implemented in nine forest divisions of Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli districts.

The five-year project will be implemented till the year 2014. Its total cost is Rs.

Publication Date: 
30/04/2011
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Land, Madhya Pradesh, UNDP, Chhindwara (D), Umaria (D), Betul (T), Forest Products, Bamboo, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forests, Water Management
Forests

Forest Rights Act axe on JFM committees

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's 11,000-odd Joint Forest Management (JFM) committees, vested with the responsibility of protection of forests through a community-based approach, may soon cease to exist.

If these bodies are not made compliant to Forest Rights Act (FRA) that is.

Since the Forest Rights Act, 2006 gives gram sabhas the ultimate power to settle tenurial rights of community forest resources

Publication Date: 
18/03/2011
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forests, Forest Rights Act 2006, Orissa (Odisha), Panchayats
Forests

Implementing Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 : A seminar report and recommendations

A National seminar on the FRA was organised by the Council for Social Development on 26–27 April, 2010. Most of the participants reported that all of the key features of this legislation have been undermined by a combination of apathy and sabotage during the process of implementation.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Social Change
41
1
121
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Gram Sabhas, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Personnel, Forest Encroachments, Tribals, Maharashtra, Displacement, Remote Sensing, Tiger Reserves, India, Forests
Forests

Jairams panel seeks forest reforms, his babus for status quo

The UPA will not find it easy to change the way India

Publication Date: 
04/02/2011
Nitin SethI
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forests, Naxalites, Tribals, Panchayats, Joint Forest Management (JFM)
Environment

Tribal eco project under MGNREGS

Afforestation and water conservation scheme at Attappady

Rs.44 lakh spent on various works

215 km of fire line erected

PALAKKAD: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is stepping into an eco-restoration project at Attappady after the Rs.219-crore eco-restoration scheme implemented by the Attappady Hill Area Development Society (AHADS) during the last 10 y

Publication Date: 
07/01/2011
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Water Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tribals, Palakkad (D)

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