Sentence examples for communal forests from inspiring English sources

The community/private forestland has been classified as guzara forests, communal forests (Section 38 of the Areas and Chos Act; Wani 2002).

4) Finally, in Aman Singh's chapter "From Stewards to Trespassers: Pastoralist Management of Forest Resources," he makes it clear that oran communal forests in Rajasthan, India, "are critically important pasture tracts for local livestock and meet the real needs of local people; productive orans result in less poverty and more livelihood security in communities".

For years, illegal loggers, protected by drug cartel gunmen, have ravaged the area's communal forests and murdered a number of townspeople.

The Mayan Ixil people of the villages of Salquil and Vicalama have been using their communal forests and pastures for the last 2,500 years.

So as our new partners arrive home from their trip to New York for the Climate Summit, we invite you to travel with us in the slender vessels that will carry us deep into the communal forests of the Darien in Panama.

GIRA's role was to organize the creation of a community land use plan, which involved demarcating all communal forest lands and individual agricultural plots with GPS units, facilitating group decisions on management of communal lands, and designing rules to monitor and enforce these decisions.

Other than academic purposes, it is believed that the findings of this study generated quantitative scientific information for policy-makers and planners that guides them towards better and more informed decision-making for PFM establishment and implementation that is geared towards communal forest management and, thereby, to achieving the broader goal of poverty reduction in Ethiopia.

In the Mayan Highlands of northern Guatemalan, a prized source of high grade barite is hidden within the pristine communal forest and pasture lands of the Mayan Ixil people.

The barite mined from nine square kilometers of communal forest and pasture land is to be exported to a refining plant in New Orleans before being sold to multinational oil and gas companies for fracking operations around the world.

They were able to retain the rest of their land under traditional management, including swiddens and a communal forest.

Villagers manage complex agroforestry systems of communal fruit gardens and rubber groves, often with communal forest, wet and dry swiddens, and occasionally irrigated wet rice.