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Protection of Wildlife and Conservation of Natural Areas Law 1994
The objectives of this Law, consisting of XII Chapters, are as follows: (a) to implement the Government policy for wildlife protection; (b) to implement the Government policy fo...
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Forests and forestry in Myanmar: an overview of forestry laws, policies, and strategies
Myanmar possesses great variation in topography and climatic conditions, and six major forest types can be found in the country, ranging from mangrove forests in the coastal reg...
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Forestry in Myanmar 2020
The Forest Department released 2020 report, consists various contents with up-to-date information about institutional structure, forest resources base, rules and law and etc.
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Community Forestry Act, B.E. 2562 (2019)
Reasons and necessity of restricting the rights and freedoms of persons under this Act are to encourage the community to cooperate with the government in managing natural resour...
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Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act, B.E. 2562 (2019)
The reason for promulgating this Act is that the 1992 Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act has been in force for a long time and certain provisions and various measures in t...
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Understanding timber flows and control in Cambodia in the Context of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)
The report of a study to improve the understanding of timber flows in Cambodia and to understand the roles of the government agencies involved in the control of the timber suppl...
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Sub-Decree no. 29 on the determination of flooded forest area (zone 2) of Tonle Sap area in Kampong Thom province
This sub-decree determines the buffer zone of the flooded forest area (zone 2) of Tonle Sap area of 121,402 hectares, 32 acres (one hundred and twenty-four thousand four hundred...
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Notification on List of goods subject to import-export control and prohibition
Goods subject to import – export prohibition are dangerous and have a severe effect on national security, peace and public safety in order to protect the social/public order; th...
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Biotechnology Safety Law
After the 6th ordinary session of the VII National Assembly Congress, wide studies and consideration were undertaken and agreement was reached on the content of Biotechnology ...
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The context of REDD+ in Vietnam: Drivers, agents and institutions
Vietnam is acknowledged to be REDD+ pioneer country, having adopted REDD+ in 2009. This paper is an updated version of Vietnam’s REDD+ Country Profile which was first published ...
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Order On Strengthening Strictness of Timber Harvest Management and Inspection, Timber Transport and Business
In order to strengthen the implementation of forest management, timber business, timber harvest, timber processing and timber trade with strictly respect to laws and regulations...
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Laos Forestry Law (2019)
This law determines the principles, regulations and measures on management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest and forestland, promotion of regenera...
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Country Forest Note : Vietnam
This Country Forest Note (CFN) provides an upstream analysis of the status of forests and of investments and policies relevant to the forest sector in Vietnam. It looks at fores...
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Forest Category in Lao PDR, 2016
Forest Category in Lao PDR, 2016 including national protected areas, national protection forests, and national production forests.
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Thailand’s Community Forest Act: Analysis of the legal framework and recommendations
Thailand is undergoing an important development in its forestry laws. When the Community Forest Act B.E. 2562 was passed in 2019, Thailand had for the first time an official umb...
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
The report explains the differences between the new Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws (the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007). Compare the new Land La...
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Tree Cover Loss (FORMA) Alerts - Humid Tropics
This data set is from Global Forest Watch and indicating satellite data of tree loss cover alerts (humid tropics) for the Lao PDR. These are known as Forest Monitoring for Actio...
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Shifting Cultivation in Myanmar’s REDD+ Development: A review of three REDD+ program documents
This report provides a review of shifting cultivation across three Myanmar REDD+ programme documents. The initial background study on drivers of deforestation concluded that mor...
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Timber industry faces challenges in the voluntary partnership agreement process in forest governance
The lack of transparency and accountability together with the issues of corruption, an overwhelming wood demand and land rights are still posing challenges for the timber indust...
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Forest Law (1992)
This Law shall be implemented in accordance with the following basic principles: (a) To implement the forestry policy of the Government; (b) To implement the environmental con...