Sentences with phrase «logging concessions»
Logging concessions refer to the rights or permits granted by the government to companies or individuals to harvest or cut down trees in specific areas, usually forests. Full definition
Only 5 percent of fires burned in protected areas and selective logging concessions.
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Indonesia's president signs a two - year moratorium on new logging concessions in the island nation's still - prolific virgin forests, part of a $ 1 billion climate change deal with Norway intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation.
The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest management contracts (FMCs) and timber sale contracts (TSCs), compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps.
In 2001, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that Nicaragua had violated the rights of the community by granting logging concessions on their traditional lands and failing to recognize the property rights of the indigenous communities.
In fact, 13 % of the territory of Madre de Dios has been set aside for logging concessions.
Industrial logging concessions on islands off the coast of Sumatra threaten to undermine a sustainable community industry that may hold to key to protecting Indonesia's carbon - dense, but increasingly endangered peatlands.
For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.
The study suggests that monitoring and prevention of road construction within protected areas, the creation of new logging concessions or the further implementation of forest plantations, stronger enforcement of the protected areas and alternative livelihoods to small - scale farmers could be more effective for conservation than reliance on protected areas alone.
WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.
«Environmental licensing and market certification of logging concessions need to take this into account, and review minimum preconditions in terms of volumetric quotas of roundlogs harvested per species and regeneration standards over multi-decade logging cycles.»
«Temporal decay in timber species composition and value in Amazonian logging concessions» is published in the journal PLOS ONE on July 13, 2016.
Wealthy nations drive demand for tropical timber, and cash - strapped governments often grant logging concessions at a fraction of the land's true value.
«Contrary to popular perception, logging is not uniformly a cause of deforestation and forest degradation, and thus emissions ecosystem services and other forms of land use coexist with logging concessions,» she wrote in response to Climate Home's questions.
Despite the significant obstacle to conservation that oil palm plantations represent, the area under logging concessions still dwarfs that under oil palm.
«This is a victory for the people of Liberia, as the new timber ban will severely restrict the Liberian government's access to weapons imports, prevent the abuse of timber revenue by rebel groups LURD (7) and MODEL (8), which have recently captured key logging concessions and ports (9), and curtail the disastrous humanitarian consequences of the industry.»
In Liberia, Samling is linked via ownership structures to two firms - Alpha Logging and Atlantic Resources - that acquired logging concessions in 2009.
The Nigerian government commissioned the operation of WEMPCO's wood processing factory and approved a new 540 square mile logging concession located on the river upstream from many forest communities and the national park.
Part of the impetus to degazette a forest may be due to the fact that the state government receives a premium from logging concessions when they sell the land to a private company.
When he was president, Taylor raided the valuable hardwood forests by entering into secret agreements with a favored lumber company and awarding it the largest logging concessions in the country.
Ecosystem restoration concessions in Indonesia are meant to facilitate an alternative use for degraded production forests — areas previously zoned for logging concessions.
Here in the Tapajós, though, Brazil has proposed a new model, allowing a collective of people who live on the margin of the forest to operate a «sustainable» logging concession.
The logging concession threat was in name only and not a reality except on a paper map in the capital.
For example, Indonesia, the world's biggest oil palm producer, has 9.7 million hectares under oil palm but 46 million hectares of natural forest in logging concessions, suggesting there are many opportunities for conservation efforts directed at logged forests that are not currently under threat of conversion to oil palm.
Illegal mahogany in the Peruvian Amazon is harvested outside the logging concessions mostly from private agricultural lands or Brazil nut concessions.
Camera trap footage from this area released by WWF this month showed a dozen tigers living in a logging concession.
The logging concessions stand to devastate the remaining forest in the buffer zones surrounding the national park.