The strategy seemed to work: by 2004, all the forest land was returned to farmers.
According to environmental sources, he handed out 700 title deeds to forest land two weeks before the 1997 election.
State governments, which own most forests, must seek central-government approval for any shift in the use of forest land.
Through the timber company Irving Woodlands, the Canadian family owns forest land in Maine, most of which is sustainably harvested.
Indonesia has laws designed to stop the burning of forest land, and supposedly imposes draconian penalties for damaging the environment.
That, in turn, will mean facing down the planters, who prefer to bag forest land for a windfall of timber.
The building that collapsed was illegally constructed on forest land, and the city informed forestry officials twice about it, Mr. Malvi said.
The company owns about 654, 000 acres of forest land in the Southeastern region of the U.S., and about 135, 000 acres in Brazil.
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Ecological studies on the restoration of degraded forest land, the conservation of medicinal plants and their sustainable harvesting are being conducted at Achanakmar-Amarkantak.
The state's last coalition government fell after it announced it would transfer forest land to a Hindu shrine board that manages an annual pilgrimage.
In Indonesia this would mean putting palm-oil plantations not on forest land but on degraded land, of which it has perhaps 40m hectares available.
Demand for food in these countries will also double, which, at their current low levels of agricultural productivity, will drive up demand for forest land.
In the 1990s when I was young, there was a land selling frenzy within the neighbourhood in preference for cheap or free forest land in Mau.
However, the huge swathes of abandoned former forest land alongside previous road schemes show that, in fact, much of the region lacks suitable soil and climate for agriculture.
The core area of Achanakmar-Amarkantak consists of the protected forest land while the buffer zone and the transition area are characterised by forests, agricultural and rehabilitated land and small suburban clusters.
Nevertheless, there is a risk that the scheme, by making it easier to get secure title for dubious land claims, might somehow stimulate demand for virgin forest land, not damp it.
Now stock analysts are apparently encouraging the paper companies to uncouple their mills from their forest land, a trend that accounts for some of the recent offerings of land for sale.
As firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze near Fort Collins, which has burned large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land since it began June 9, local authorities have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.
The area is currently populated by over 20 million people and is challenged by deforestation, agriculture, mining, a governmental dam building spree, illegal land speculation including the occupation of forest reserves and indigenous land and other issues.
The GVKBR consists of four clusters: Raifa Forest, Sarali Land between Rivers, Spassk Insular Archipelago, Sviyzhsk Wetland Area.
In Slovenia, untamed forest still exceeds land that has been brought under cultivation.
In the Jemez, for example, it could transform much of the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest into shrub land.
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Recently, Indonesia's government announced a two-year moratorium on primary forest and peat land conversion as part of its commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
The walk, which passes by the remains of early logging camps, becomes increasingly easier as you follow old forestry trails through open forest and heath land.
This is helping local people send their kids to school, access health care, and continue to grow crops on the same land without having to de-forest and to move to new land.
Higher yields, he pointed out, saved marginal land and forest from farming.
Selective logging and conversion of rain forest habitat to agricultural land are the greatest threats to the survival of the white-collared lemur, together with hunting, according to the IUCN website.
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.
The likely impact includes forest conversion to agricultural land, a drop in biological diversity as a result of monocropping and the massive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, unsustainable levels of water abstraction and a greater risk of water-related conflicts with local communities and neighbouring States sharing the same transboundary river systems.
Hence the Congress government is toying with proposals for a new Tribal Bill that would give land rights to forest dwellers.
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