This Law makes provisions for the financial compensation, or compensation in kind, to persons who had been owners of agricultural lands, pastures, meadows, forests and forest lands, according to definitions in article 1 of this Law and to the persons that are recognized as their legal heirs. The right to compensation in value or in kind with agricultural lands, pastures, meadows, forests and forest land is recognized to ex-owners or their heirs, whose property is registered, or in their absence, when ownership is certified by a decision of the court of the proper district (art. 4).

This Law consisting of 27 articles aims at regulating the green cover protection in Libya. It establishes that the General People's Committee for Agricultural Land Reclamation and Reconstruction is responsible for protection, development and management of public forests and rangelands, and contributes to administrate private forests and pastoral farms.

This Law sets the necessary rules and procedures aimed to define and regulate the restitution (restoration of land ownership) of forests and forest lands.The rules provided by this Law are related to: both state and private owned forests and forest lands, as also defined by other relevant Laws and Regulations (see article 2 of the text); and to various administrative issues such as status of restored ownership of forests and forest lands of former owners who have received the compensation for their properties, as well as former homeowners who have paid their debt to the state (and similar a

This Act seeks to empower communities to fully engage in sustainable management and conservation of forests of Liberia by creating a legal framework that defines and supports community rights in the management and use of forest resources. It provides the legal framework that empowers local communities located in or near forest lands to access, manage, use and benefit from forest resources on those lands for sustenance and livelihood improvements as well as for community development. The Act provides for forestry land to be classified as Community forestry land.

This Law establishes the forms of property and ownership, legal and economic grounds in the sphere of property relations, and sets forth terms and conditions of the origin of property rights, ensuring protection and conservation of property. Objects of ownership can be land, subsoil, mining allotment, water resources, air space, forest fund, flora, fauna, and intellectual property.

The National Forest Policy of Montenegro is a national sectoral policy whose main objectives are: a) to ensure and improve long-term resistance and productivity of forests and other ecosystems; b) to ensure the maintenance of plant and animal species; c) to ensure sustainable forest administration and sustainable implementation of social, economic and environmental forest functions; d) to ensure the contribution of forests to social and economic development of rural areas; e) to ensure long-term development and competitiveness of wood industry.

El presente Decreto modifica el Reglamento para la aplicación del impuesto a las tierras rurales, en relación a las tierras dedicadas a la actividad de silvicultura en los bosques privados que están exonerados del impuesto. En consecuencia, la aplicación del impuesto para tierras dedicadas a la actividad silvicultura se realizará a partir del momento en que se inicie la fase extractiva.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of compensation of losses of agricultural production due to expropriation of agricultural land for purpose not connected with agriculture and forestry offsetting investments, made by legal or natural persons to whom was re-allotted expropriated land, for land reclamation in case of damages to fertile layer of soil. Amount of compensation shall be established shall be calculated as the difference between the cost of losses and the cost of investment for land reclamation.

Le présent décret fixe la procédure relative à la dation en paiement par remise d'immeubles en nature de bois et forêts ou espaces naturels pouvant être incorporés au domaine forestier de l'Etat, instituée par l'article 1716 bis du Code général des impôts.

THE FOREST CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2016 No. 34 of 2016

Date of Assent: 31st August, 2016

Date of Commencement: By Notice

This book exposes the key land use and environmental problems facing Kenya today due to lack of an appropriate national land use policy. The publication details how the air is increasingly being polluted, the water systems are diminishing in quantity and deteriorating in quality. The desertification process threatens the land and its cover. The soils are being eroded leading to siltation of the ocean and lakes. The forests are being depleted with impunity thus destroying the water catchments.

The document deals with reservation of forest, forest settlement, formation of village forest, protected forests including control and management of forest.

It delienates legal forest types and tenure typologies under them.