Abstract Due to the uncertainty of forest areas in Indonesia, it often creates conflicts with various parties an interest areas, such as communities, institutions that have forestry business permits, and government. Changes area occur from time due conversion for non-forestry sector development, encroachment, fire. The government has issued Government Regulation Number 23 2021 about administrat...

Deforestation in Nepal threatens the functioning of complex social-ecological systems, including rural populations that depend on forests for subsistence, as well as Nepal's biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Nepal's forests are particularly important to the nation's poorest inhabitants, as many depend upon them for daily survival. Two-thirds of Nepal's population relies on forests for ...

We present an in-depth analysis of natural forest management practices in Costa Rica based on a new historical forestry GIS database encompassing five conservation regions in the country where selective logging has been prevalent for the last 18 years. Natural forest management refers to the selective logging practices for the production of timber in natural forest ecosystems. The study conside...

1School of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 2Danzhou Investigation & Experiment Station of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture/Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China 3Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 4College of Forestry, ...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in Iran. The study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...