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Legal and Scientific Resources for Forests
Cases
Australia -- Leatch v. Director-General of National Parks & Wildlife Service and Shoalhaven City Council [1993] NSWLEC 191 (23 November 1993) (Land and Environment Court of New South Wales) (No 10376 of 1993)
Australia -- Van Son v Forestry Commission (1995) 86 LGERA 108 (2.2 MB)
Chile -- Fallo Cortas Ilegales Alerce -- Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF) y Forestal Sarao Sa. v. Nicolás Florentino Soto
India -- K.M. Chinnappa v. Union of India W.P. 202/1995(2002.10.30)(Mining in Forest Land)
India -- Kanyakumari District Planters Association v. Tamil Nadu W.P. 7275/1985 (2002.04.05)(Rubber Plantations)
India -- T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Through the Amicus Curiae v. Ashok Khot & Another, Contempt Petition (Civil) 83/2005 (2006.05.10)
India -- T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Versus Union of India, WP 202/1995 (2005.09.26) (Valuation of forests)
Inter American -- Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua (2001) (Inter American Court of Human Rights - Eng. translation)
Inter American -- Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua (2001) (Inter American Court of Human Rights - Esp/Sp)
Kenya -- Ogiek People v. District Commissioner Case No. 238/1999 (2000.03.23) (Indigenous Rights to Tinet Forest)
Russia -- Forest case (1998.2.17), Ecojuris` Press Releases
Uganda -- Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) v. Attorney General
General Publications
Australia -- The code of practice for timber production (1996) (2.1 MB)
Community Based Forest Governance: From Resistance to Proposals for Sustainable Use
Costa Rica -- Financing Environmental Services: The Costa Rican Experience and Its Implications (215 KB)
Croatia -- Analysis of the Benefits of Watershed Protection and Related Forestry Development in Croatia (317 KB)
FAO -- Code of Practice for Forest Harvesting in Asia-Pacific (1999) (604 kB)
FAO -- Regional Code of practice for reduced impact forest harvesting - in tropical moist forests of West and Central Africa (2003) (721 kB)
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 1, June 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 10, March 2005
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 11, April 2005
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 2, July 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 3, August 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 4, September 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 5, October 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 6, November 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 7, December 2004
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 8, January 2005
India -- Forestry Case Update, Issue 9, February 2005
Liberia -- Code of Forest Harvesting Practices (2007)
Liberia -- Forestry Development Authority (2007) National Forest Management Strategy
Liberia -- Forestry Development Authority (June 2007) Guidelines for Forest Management Planning
Malaysia -- Sabah Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines for logging and forest clearance activities (January 2002) (3.47 MB)
Peru -- ¿Adios a los Bosques Amazónicos? La ecología política de implementar la nueva Ley Forestal en el Perú.
REDD Myths: A Critical Review of Proposed Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries
Valuing Forests: A Review of Methods and Applications in Developing Countries (210 KB)
Laws
Bolivia -- Instructivo para desmontes IOP 007/2001 (en español)
Bolivia -- Ley Forestal (en español)
Costa Rica -- Ley Forestal 7575 (articulo 46 y 47)
Ghana -- Timber Resource Management Act, 1998
India -- The Scheduled Tribes & Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2005 [DRAFT]
Indonesia -- Number 41 1999 Stipulation to the Act on Forestry
Liberia -- Forest Sector Reform (Executive Order #1)
Nicaragua -- Fomento Del Sector Forestal (Forest Law - Spanish)
Paraguay -- Ley de Valoracion y Retribucion de los Servicios Ambientales (No. 3001/2006)
Paraguay -- Ley Forestale (No. 422/73)
Peru -- Ley Forestal y de Fuana Silvestre (en español)
Other Resources
Comments on the Draft Environmental Review of the Proposed U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (Chile, 2001)
Peru -- Marco Legal para Aprovechar los Bosques Secos de la Costa Peruana
Sri Lanka -- EFL Position on Proposed Tropical Forest Agreement Under US Tropical Forest Conservation Act
Related Links
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
http://www.fao.org/docrep/V6530S/V6530S00.htm
http://www.fao.org/docrep/V6530E/V6530E00.htm
Forest Peoples Programme
Forests, Trees, and People Program (FAO Community Forestry)
Forests.org
Georgia -- environmental legislation
India -- Indian Environmental Legislation
The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific
http://www.fao.org/docrep/W3646E/w3646e0c.htm
U.S. -- Oregon Department of Forestry Regulations
U.S. -- State Forestry Laws (Report by Defenders of Wildlife)
U.S. -- Sustainable Forestry on Wisconsin`s Menominee Indian Reservation (1997 article)
U.S. -- Tropical Forest Conservation Act, 22 U.S.C. sec. 2431 et seq. (2001)
U.S. -- Tropical Forest Conservation Act: Student Guide by the U.S. Forest Service
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