"The funding was removed during the change in government but we decided to use our charity at Nottingham Forest to sustain this fantastic facility, " Forest community director Graham Moran said.
Meghalaya's enormous forest cover is community-owned, but timber merchants often bypass the local leaders to strike up deals with foresters.
Since 1997, for example, indigenous folk in Oaxaca, Mexico, have been encouraged by the Mexican government and the World Bank to establish community forest enterprises.
"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
The UN-REDD Programme would have welcomed the chance to respond to the aforementioned statement during the interview we did with The Economist for this special issue, but no questions related to the Mau forest or the Ogiek community were raised at that time.
After almost 10 years of contentious wrangling between the community and developer Forest City Ratner, the first completed building in the Atlantic Yards megadevelopment opened in September.
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Founded in the early 1970s by oil and gas billionaire George Mitchell, The Woodlands has become a 28, 000-acre master planned community carved out of the pine forest to become home to 200, 000.
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"The main objective was to find an alternative income for the local community in the surrounding village and forest, and also relieve the pressure on the forest of people cutting timber, " says project manager Amiri Saidi.
Eddie Thomson, chair of the Highland Perthshire Area Community Interest Company, which runs the Enchanted Forest, said they were looking forward to celebrating their 10th anniversary.
Liberal Democrat peer and chairman of the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership Lord Redesdale announced that he was willing to lead a "community-based bid" to acquire Kielder Forest, the largest plantation in England.
Central government, the local community and environmentalists agreed to put land and forest of significance in the control of the Department of Conservation, with a small area of 50, 000 hectares made available for sustainable indigenous forest harvesting.
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 different programmes are specifically created for the local communities in which they are located, in thematic fields such as "forest", "culture and environment", "local community and environment", "tourism and environment", "biodiversity", "soil" etc.
The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.
This community-based approach is already yielding benefits in former hunting areas like Ankasa Forest Reserve and Krokosua Hills, where Ghanaian wildlife expert Gytha Nuno has worked closely with the villagers of Eteso, Mim and Adjumadiem.
In the Forest Gate operation of 2006, when a man was shot but later released without charge, community leaders expressed frustration over how little people were being told.
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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).
The 4, 726 acre Chimney Rock National Monument will be managed by the USDA Forest Service - the seventh National Monument managed by the agency - in close collaboration with tribal, community, state, and Federal partners.
The international community's refusal to recognize an armed conflict in Syria can only be characterized as not seeing the forest for the trees.
"Individuals, companies, schools and community groups across Wales will not only help protect a significant area of rainforest but forge lasting links with forest communities in Africa".
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