The overall Goal of the present cross-sectoral Policy is sustainable development, management, utilization and conservation of forest resources and equitable sharing of accrued benefits for the present and future generations of the people of Kenya.

The Goal of the present cross-sectoral National Forest Plan (NFP) is formulated as follows: “An integrated forest sector that achieves sustainable increases in economic, social and environmental benefits from forests and trees by all the people of Uganda, especially the poor and vulnerable”.The objectives of the NFP are: 1) To raise the incomes and quality of life of poor people through forestry developments, targeting sustainable livelihoods amongst small-scale, mainly rural stakeholders, with strategies based on-farm, in natural forests or off-farm; 2) To increase economic productivity an

The overall Vision of the present cross-sectoral Forest Policy is formulated as follows: “A sufficiently forested, ecologically stable and economically prosperous Uganda”. Part 2 concerns Guiding Principles for the Forest Sector building on the government's national development priorities of poverty eradication and good governance.

This Act directs the Secretary of the Interior, to review every roadless area of 5,000 or more acres and every roadless island within National Wildlife Refuge and National Park Systems and to recommend to the President the suitability of each such area or island for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. The National Wilderness Preservation System is to be composed of federally owned areas designated by the Congress as "wilderness areas". The Secretary of Agriculture must recommend suitable areas in the National Forest System.

This Act establishes a National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and prescribes the methods and standards through which additional rivers may be identified and added to the system. The Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to study areas and submit proposals to the President and Congress for addition to the system. It describes procedures and limitations for control of lands in Federally administered components of the system and for dealing with disposition of lands and minerals under Federal ownership.

The President declares to validate the institution of land and marine protected areas included in accordance with UNESCO Program “People and biosphere” in the international network of biosphere reserves with a view of natural ecosystems conservation and performance of scientific research related to the most precious ecosystems of the Earth. In particular this Presidential Decree refers to biosphere reserves Ascania-Nova (Kherson region), the Black Sea biosphere reserve (Kherson and Mykolaiv regions) and Carpathians Mountains (Transcarpathian region).

This Act amends the Forestry Act in sections 3, 6, 7 and 8 so as to vest in the Minister land declared to be a forest reserve, Crown land declared to be a protected forest and land declared to be a conservation forest.

Amends: Forestry Act, 2010 (No. 20 of 2010). (2010-07-01)

This Act, among other things, recognizes the Minerals Management Board as established by section 214 of the Constitution and provides rules relative to exploration and exploitation of minerals in Swaziland. The Act defines functions and powers of the Board, establishes an office of the Commissioner of Mines and defines functions of the Commissioner of Mines. A distinction is made between small-scale and large-scale operations for the purposes of this Act.

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to perform legal regulation of the issues related to ownership, tenancy and governance of land, including agricultural land, land shares in common ownership, and also relations concerning land reservation and land expropriation.

This Regional Law regulates relations originating in the process of management of regional natural resources with a view of setting up favorable conditions for rational use, protection, conservation, reproduction and increase thereof, and environmental improvement. Objects of legal regulation by this Regional Law shall be land, air, subsoil, surface water and groundwater, forests, wild fauna and wild flora, natural landscapes and protected areas. Natural resources shall be public property.

This Act makes provision for land use planning and regulates the subdivision of land.

The present Agreement is the first combined land, resources and self-government Agreement in the Northwest Territories. Canada, the Government of the Northwest Territories(GNWT) and the Tlicho are Parties to the Agreement. The Agreement provides the Tlicho with ownership of a single block of 39,000 square kilometres of land, including subsurface resources, adjacent to or surrounding the four Tlicho communities. The Agreement also provides for self-government. A regional Tlicho Government was created with law-making authority over Tlicho Citizens in their communities and on their lands.