To this end, the government adapted the Community Forestry Concept (developed by FAO, see below) and introduced the Gambian Forest Management Concept (GFMC) through the Gambian Forestry Act (1995).
In order to address this situation, the Gambian government, with support from FAO and the German government through the Gambian-German Forestry Project (GGFP) and various local NGOs, has been spearheading the establishment of community forests and community-based forestry projects since the early 1990s.
Community-based forestry initiatives from Bolivia to Nepal have shown that local people can be good custodians of nature.
It is on the basis of this enabling policy environment that the Gambian government instituted the Community-Based Forestry Management Programme (CBFMP) in 2001.
John Wood, a Forestry Commission community ranger from Mansfield, has become an MBE.
The grant to buy the woodland came from Cydcoed - a Forestry Commission Wales community woodland project, which is funded by the European Union and Welsh Assembly Government.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Village campaign secures woodland
Ministers are consulting on plans to sell off or lease England's 258, 000-hectare public forest estate, which is currently managed by the Forestry Commission, to community groups, charities, and private companies.
The government's plan to sell off or lease 258, 000 hectares of England's public forests, managed by the Forestry Commission, was intended to give the private sector, community and charitable groups greater involvement in woodlands by encouraging a "mixed model" of ownership.
Biosphere reserves assume far more functions than regluar protected areas or nature reserves: they require an inter-sector coordination, the sharing of benefits and responsibilities in natural resources management of agriculture, forestry, fishery, science, local and national authorities and the international community.
The committee decided to continue the petition and write to the Scottish government and ask whether it supported a Commonwealth Games orchard and also ageed to contact groups such as the Forestry Commission and the Woodlands Trust and ask what they were doing to engage the community in planting.
It was run by the Forestry Commission and Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust until last year, when the Highland Perthshire Community Interest Company took over.
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