Community-based forest managementand its perception by villagers

Bunjil Forest Watch a Community-Based Forest Monitoring Service

Medicinal plants used by the villagers of a Sundanese community in West Java, Indonesia.

AIM OF THE STUDY Based on the authors' fieldwork in a Sundanese village, Indonesia, this paper aimed to elucidate the roles of herbal medicine in treatment of illnesses and to report medicinal plants and their uses, comparing with those mentioned in the encyclopedic book series of Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). MATERIALS AND METHODS Interview survey was conducted for all of the ...

The Forest as Seen by its Trees

We consider estimating the density of points in a point process by a count of the number of points in a unit volume, and the bias that results when the volume is centered at a point of the point process rather than at a randomly chosen location.

Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Equity, Inclusion and Conflict in Community Based Forest Management: A Case of Salghari Community Forest in Nepal

The equity and inclusion issues are widely observed in Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) and Community Forestry (CF) is not an exception. Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) are portrayed as robust grassroots institutions for forest management and group governance. However, many contemporary researches have shown that CFUGs are still governed by some influential local elites who hardly ...