National Environmental Act 1980 · As enacted · Part IV · Environmental Management
21. Management policy for forestries,
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The Authority in consultation with the Council shall, with the assistance of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Forestry, recommend to the Minister a system of—
rational exploitation of forest resources,
regulation of the marketing of threatened forest resources,
conservation of threatened species of flora, and shall encourage citizen participation therewith to keep the country’s forest resources at maxi-mum proudctivity at all times ;
promoting a continuing effort on reforestation, timber stand improvement, forest protection, land classifi-cation, forest occupancy management, industrial tre2 plantation, parks and wildlife management, multiple use forest, timber management and forest research.
Soil Conservation