Illegal
cutting of timber logs (750,000 cubic feet) worth millions of rupees have been
rotting in the community forests of Kanchanpur and Dadeldhura, Far-western
Nepal. Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has seized
the documents of eight community forests in the area and lodged a case in the
Special Court accusing the community forests of involvement in deforestation
and timber smuggling. Similarly massive
encroachment threatens to wipe out the forest cover along the slopes of the
Mahabharat Range of Dadeldhura, Far-western Nepal. In Alital VDC-5 of
Dadeldhura, effort of locals, mostly women, transformed wide areas of
government-owned barren land into green stretches of abundant grass (mostly
amriso plants and varieties of grass good) and masala plants.
20,
22, 28 December
Republica
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