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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… Indonesia • Export of wood and processed wood products • Illegal logging • Oil palm and small-scale rubber plantations • … for ranchers to expand pasture areas. Papua New Guinea • Illegal logging • Although forestry laws are in place, 90 …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… causes of landscape dynamics might include, for example: • logging operations; • conversion of forests for estate crops; … immigrants for both arable and residential land has led to illegal land trade, from both the state and customary … owners, small-scale timber investors, middlemen, loggers • Illegal sawmill owners hold no official rights • Official …
Enhancing regulatory tools to support sustainable and legal trade in timber and non-timber plant products
… policy and regulatory environments serves to discourage illegal and unsustainable trade both in the countries of … contribution, much of the international focus has been on illegal logging and timber trade. The annual loss of revenue and tax …
State of Biodiversity in Africa
… are still illegally hunted for bushmeat. Furthermore, logging, mining, hunting and human population growth are … and forage, etc., are becoming a focus for poaching, illegal grazing and other human activities that affect the … the fragmentation of wildlife habitats by roads, the illegal exploitation of reptiles and other human activities …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… on water consumption or supply, or for licenses for timber logging or fishing. A major difference between taxes and fees … its web site.90 It has improved informa- tion relating to illegal logging (e.g., type of fraud, scope), although … in charge of forests are underfunded and often corrupt. Illegal logging continues despite a legal framework that …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… rainforest is under severe pressure from hunting and logging. Extending across four of Russia’s southeastern … almost half the forests are now privately owned, but illegal logging and the regulatory regimes to promote … new roads. The forests themselves are becoming victim to illegal logging, overharvesting of heart of palms, commercial …
Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… sector in intelligence gathering to identify and prosecute illegal traders). Directed to the Secretariat 14.45 Using … there are still consumer countries that continue allowing illegal imports as a result of a lack of adequate CITES control; RECOGNIZING that illegal exports from producing countries of specimens of …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… international cooperation has resulted in action to tackle illegal trade of Siamese Rosewood, is one such site. The 241 … 2017, where it had been included in 2003 due to farming, illegal gold mining and poaching affecting its species … Farming / Grazing Poaching Tourism/ Recreation Areas Logging/ Wood Harvesting Dams/ Water Management or Use Water …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… slash and burn agriculture, dynamite fishing activities, logging or wetlands conversion to rice patties. In Case Study … resources. Enforcement and penalties for unsustainable or illegal resource use. Livelihood measures Examples: Improving … Examples: Fines and penalties for unsustainable or illegal resource use. Property rights Property rights aim to …