The FAO lumps non-oil palm tree plantations into its definition of forest cover when conducting its Global Forest Resource Assessments. The assessments analyze land cover change in countries around ...
Haryana has taken the extraordinary step of defining what constitutes a “dictionary meaning” of forest, 18 months after the Supreme Court ordered states to identify forests using that very phrase’s ...
On Nov. 30, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Forest Conservation Commission hosted a virtual meeting to collect public comments on a draft definition of the ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. India has recently adopted amendments to its forest laws that have sparked an outcry from activists and NGOs that say the changes severely weaken ...