A reserve forest or a reserved forest is a specific term for designating forests and other natural areas which enjoy judicial and / or constitutional protection under the legal systems of many countries. The term forest reserve may also be used in some contexts in these countries.
The term reserved forest was used to designate protected forest areas in British India, under the Indian Forest Act, 1927. The same term is used today in Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to refer to forests accorded a special degree of protection.
In Australia, the term "forest reserve" is used to denote forests accorded certain degrees of protection; all activities like hunting and grazing are banned unless specific orders are issued by the government.
Forest officials captured ... Earlier, there was widespread protest from locals after the first leopard was released in the Bantaje Reserve Forest on Kerala-Karnataka border, near Belloor grama panchayat.
For instance, data from the Forestry Commission revealed that 845 persons were arrested for mining in forest reserves across the country in the past two years, 627 of them arrested last year, and 218 arrested in 2023.
By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill ... Spotify ... The boundaries of his original 1,280-acre (518-hectare) reservation now encompass hundreds of acres of privately owned land, a golf course and county forest preserve ... All rights reserved ... .
The 2023 all-India estimation report had established that the tiger density here was almost 4.3, closer to the carrying capacity.The recent assessment by the forest dept was conducted simultaneously ...
For several days, a forest fire raged through the EllaForestReserve, turning a scenic paradise into a zone of destruction ... A lot of human power is required to douse a forest fire ... Increasing wildfires Forest fires are a growing concern in Sri Lanka.
Apart from Maharashtra forest department's territorial wing, officials from Tadoba-Andhari TigerReserve (TATR), the Special Tiger ProtectionForce (STPF), social forestry department, and Melghat Cyber Cell were actively involved.
A good example of this contrast is the small village of Nahle, located just a few kilometres from major tourist destinations such as the ancient Roman site of Jerash and the Dibeen NaturalForestReserve.
Know your rights. Protect yourself during ICE encounters ... On April 3, 2018, a wildfire erupted in the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve in southeast Nicaragua, burning more than 5,500 hectares of forest before rainfall extinguished it 10 days later ... On Jan.
This sublime sanctuary and forest reserve consists of 100 hectares of native forest and five hectares of plant collections ... seven hectares of the original forest which became a scenic reserve in 1906.
A Senate bill to change Iowa’s ForestReserve program — used most locally and elsewhere in northeast Iowa — could encourage people to log their forested properties prematurely, since they would lose their economic incentives ... .