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Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… Khoa indicated that local communities regarded illegal logging and encroachment of forest reserves for agricultural … this have consisted of two major strands. The first is a logging ban that has been in place for more than 30 years. … have limited capacity for watershed protection. While logging bans and a protection regime have not led to forests …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… which originated as an action against government-sponsored logging of timber on indigenous lands of the Awas Tingni … on Human Rights has found that deforestation and logging activities may impair the human rights of … associated natural resources”. With specific reference to logging and mining activities, the Committee stated that the …
Enhancing regulatory tools to support sustainable and legal trade in timber and non-timber plant products
… much of the international focus has been on illegal logging and timber trade. The annual loss of revenue and tax … Species of Wild address the illegal and unsustainable logging and trade in timber. National legal measures for … include the US Lacey Act, the EU Timber Regulation Illegal Logging Prohibition Act. They provide a legal basis to action …
Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… as well as the allocation of funding to fight illegal logging. The protests related to the bank’s underwriting of … • No financing of companies that are involved with illegal logging operations. Metals and mining • For projects … in violation with local or national laws regarding illegal logging; • When an “operation significantly converts or …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… well as management units such as existing protected areas, logging/mining concessions and privately owned areas, can … in some areas (e.g., prohibition of development or logging) to prevent risk until further data become available. … are proposing that this area, which is covered by a logging concession, be repatriated to the national park. …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… by the proposed Snowbowl development. �� The history of logging, grazing and min- ing in Northern Arizona goes back … prohibited from the Kachi- na Wilderness Zone, the forest (logging) routes are available to them elsewhere. That the … by environmental groups for assigning priority to logging, and there have been some problems in recent years …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… to meet this by, for example, increasing fishing or logging levels. Together with unsustainable levels of waste … regulatory capacity of landscape ecosystems, causing water logging of low-lying areas and overflowing of rivers and … etc., together with associated deposition of silt; • water logging of low-lying farm lands, together with associated …
Assessing the international forest regime
… and rapid deterioration of forest resources through excess logging and other unsustainable management practices – … a greater or lesser degree “paper parks,” and that illegal logging, mining, and forest clearing are widespread. Further … than the total social cost of production.35 That is, the logging company harvesting the timber does not have to pay …