Sunday, May 26, 2013

COMMUNITY FOREST: ILLEGAL LOGGING, MISUSE OF FUNDS AND FIRE- NEPAL



The district forest office of Nawalparasi in west Nepal has filed a case against 37 individuals (including 7 forest officers) in a district court accused for illegally logging Acacia catechu from national forest. Meanwhile, district forest office of Udaypur in east Nepal after investigation has found that funds of community forests have largely been misused by the forest user groups. While, in Salyan District, west Nepal, forest fire has engulfed around 250 hectares of forest in six community forest of five VDCs.
8, 12, 13 May
Nagrik, Gorkhapatra, The Kathmandu Post

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