February 22, 2012
- The criticism comes in anticipation of March 3, 2013, when the EU will enact the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan. In essence, the legislation is similar to the US's current Lacey Act, which attempts to ensure that only ...
... - It probably wasn't all enlightened governance. There is plenty of evidence (PDF) that macroeconomic shifts and other policies made cattle ranching and forest clearing less profitable and they might have faded even without the 1996 National Forestry ...
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February 21, 2012
- allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience.
allafrica.com/stories/201202211230.html - Malta has performed slightly worse in the 2012 barometer when compared with 2007 on the implementation of the Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT). There is no inter-departmental collaboration on the FLEGT action and ...
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February 20, 2012
Poaching, mining, indifferent forest bureaucracies, highways in sanctuaries, and unrestrained consumerism — all pose a threat. It is undoubtedly a gloomy picture. And this sense of despair once again pervades Valmik Thapar's writing, relieved only by ...
...- Since the end of the government forest service, several decades ago, it was mainly large forest owners who donated their time of technical staff, organised and planned industry group responses to biosecurity risks, including co-ordinating industry and ...
... - More than 200 citizens and residents from Maryland and Gbarpolu counties have pleaded with the Government of Liberia (GOL), to lift the moratoria it placed on the issuing of Private Use Permits and Community Forest Program Permits to logging companies ...
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February 19, 2012
- "Poaching accelerate, when there is a bad and weak government as poachers exploit these gaps," he said, adding that bad governance and bad political leadership also led to the endangerment of animal species. He felt that India's forest department did ...
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February 17, 2012
This moratorium is designed to allow time for the government—with participation from industry and civil society—to make changes to forest management governance that will contribute to the country's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
...- The state government has, however, exempted primary school teachers, police constables, nurses, forest watchers, excise guards, health assistants, group D employees and drivers from the essential qualification. "Serving employees above 50 years will ...
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