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    Reports & Research
    December, 1998
    France, United States of America, Sweden, Peru, Indonesia, Bolivia, Canada, Guinea, Cameroon, Thailand, New Zealand, Nepal, Philippines, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Papua New Guinea, United Kingdom, Norway, Suriname, Africa

    The Government of South Africa has a major holding of forest land, with a total estate covering 892,000 ha of forest and associated land. Within the state's forest holding there is a wide diversity of forest and land types including: commercial plantations and other afforested land; indigenous forests; legally protected (indigenous) forest areas; and associated bare land. This land is partly owned by the state and partly held on behalf of local communities, some of whom also have existing rights to use the forest land for various purposes.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1998
    Fiji, United States of America, Mali, Samoa, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Vanuatu, Canada, Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Mozambique, Philippines, South Africa, Australia, Madagascar, Italy, Papua New Guinea

    Community-based natural resource management and local users of natural resources can, and in many cases do, manage resources sustainably – if their rights to do so are recognized and protected, if appropriate institutions are in place or can be developed, and if the benefits are significant, obvious and secure. The article analyses one facet of the complex relationship between law and community-based management: the problem of how national laws recognize community-based land-owning or resource managing groups.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1998
    Burkina Faso, Benin, Honduras, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali, Australia, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar, Italy, Botswana, Eritrea, Senegal, Chad, Mexico
  4. Library Resource
    Regulations
    November, 1998
    Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa

    This Notice of the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, made under section 26 of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, concerns authorization of activities as identified G.N. No. 879 that may have a detrimental effect on the environment in respect of the Pennington Sensitive Coastal Area and Umtamvuna Sensitive Coastal Area. Those activities include: disturbance of vegetation, dredging, dune stabilisation and earthworks. An application for a permit shall be made to local authorities and shall be accompanied by an environmental impact assessment.

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