Controlling private loggers
Description
Controlling private loggers involves implementing regulatory measures, monitoring systems, and enforcement actions to prevent illegal or unsustainable logging by private entities. The strategy aims to protect forests, preserve biodiversity, and ensure sustainable resource use by requiring permits, conducting inspections, and imposing penalties for violations. Effective control remedies problems such as deforestation, habitat loss, and environmental degradation, while promoting responsible forestry practices and compliance with national and international conservation standards.
Context
Logging in particularly tropical forests is typically carried out by private firms, under government terms. Such terms and agreements may be ignored at the peril of the environment, and forestry agencies or other regulatory bodies may be unwilling or unable to enforce them. In many countries enforcers have been bribed or killed in the process. Private logging may, therefore, in cases need to be controlled more effectively.
Implementation
In Indonesia, private, national and international firms are being recruited to monitor compliance with logging concessions.
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Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
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English
1A4N
J2967
DOCID
12029670
D7NID
199092
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Last update
Dec 3, 2024