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Timberlands operations, has no forestry management understanding, and has minimal forest ecology understanding. The Labour leadership has also never visited Timberlands' operations. They apparently make their ... 's performance was supported on this basis. Not so DoC's forest estate, because its 5 million hectares of indigenous forest is not required by NZ law to test its own ...
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'Conservation through Sustainable Management' lobby group. The report, an assessment of the Timberlands indigenous forest estate, was prepared by DoC using the criteria of the Nature Heritage Fund. However ... said. He believes that although the conservation values embodied in the Crown's West Coast indigenous production forests may be high, it is another matter entirely for the Ministers to use ...
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Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest selected as site for historic conservation project
Gishwati chimpanzees, expand their forest habitat, and foster the economic development of the local human population,” Beck said. “Great Ape ... the importance of biodiversity is a driving force for our efforts.” Once the second-largest indigenous forest in Rwanda, Gishwati extended 1,0002 km (100,000 hectares or 250,000 acres) ...
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Rhino Ark - Humans in Harmony with Habitat and Wildlife
Our nation's indigenous forests make up the main water catchment areas serving almost every person in both high density ... die and people suffer. How do we prevent this from occurring? Kenya still has a protected indigenous forest cover of just over 1 million hectares (under 3 per cent of total land are) ...
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Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest selected as site for historic conservation project
Gishwati Forest Reserve, the chimpanzees’ home range, to Nyungwe National Park. The Rwandan National Conservation Park is ... to establish sustainable livelihoods for occupants of land within area of core forest expansion. Once the second-largest indigenous forest in Rwanda, Gishwati extended 1,0002 km (100,000 hectares or ...
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PEFC - Indigenous people and PEFC forest certification
Although a fast growing number of customers are aware of the need and the advantages of buying timber from certified forests, the question repeatedly arises as to whether forest certification systems adequately recognize the interests of indigenous forest people, like the Indians in the Amazon, the tribal communities in Africa or Sami people in the Arctic Circle. To answer this question, the PEFC ...
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A new law recognising the rights of indigenous peoples in the Republic of Congo
UK (RFUK) has backed the creation of ground-breaking legislation aimed at protecting the rights of forest dwellers in Congo- Brazzaville. The law is making its way through the Congo parliament. It will be the first law in Africa to guard against the rampant discrimination, exploitation and violence endured by indigenous forest peoples. The law has been developed with participation of forest ...
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Citizens for Responsible Forest Management - archived features
Features 2003 Coho Salmon South of San Francisco Bay: Indigenous or Not? (PDF format) By Jodi Frediani, January 2003 Forest Updates Current and past 2000 (from old site, most still ... idea of how various cutting percentages and re-entry periods affect a redwood forest. Citizens for Responsible Forest Management (CRFM) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, formed in 1993. The members ...
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ForestHarvest - News on non-timber forest products in Scotland
If you'd like to make a suggestion, see Reforesting Scotland's Sustainable Forest Harvest project page for more details. Reforesting Scotland launches a new project 28th November 2007 ... the wealth of ecological knowledge and spiritual connection to the natural world that is fundamental to indigenous cultures and lifeways. Nancy is the author of dozens of books and other publications on ...
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IELRC.ORG - India - Forest Documents
Benches in the Supreme Court, since 1995. Over time, the controversy over traditional claims of indigenous communities to lands that may be classified as forests (under the various legislations of States ... to the forefront. The need to legislatively recognise the traditional claims of indigenous communities has led to the Forest Rights Act being passed in 2006. The State and Union legislations, and ...
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