anchor.diff:            <h3 class='overview_title'>Liberia logging concessions</h3>
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  -          <p>The Liberia logging concessions dataset combines the boundaries of forest management contracts, timber sale contracts, and private use permits, compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps. Due to a lack of quality data, this dataset should be used for demonstration purposes only and not for land use planning purposes. Forests in Liberia are managed by the state under the National Forestry Reform Law, enacted in October 2006. Following the enactment of this law, UN Security Council timber export sanctions against Liberia were lifted permitting commercial forestry activities to resume. Forest management contracts include concession areas of 50,000 hectares to 400,000 hectares and are open for bids from qualified bidders that demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens; concessions over than 100,000 hectares are open for bidding from international investors. Timber sale contracts are established through a bidding process for areas up to 5,000 hectares; bidders must demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens. Private Use Permits are licenses issued to private land owners to extract wood and lack sustainability regulations. Global Witness compiled the logging concession data as part of the report, Signing Their Lives Away:  Liberia’s Private Use Permits and the Destruction of Community Owned Rainforest (Global Witness, 2012).</p>
  +          <p>The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest management contracts, timber sale contracts, and private use permits, compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps. Due to a lack of quality data, this data set should be used for demonstration purposes only and not for land use planning purposes. Forests in Liberia are managed by the state under the National Forestry Reform Law, enacted in October 2006. Following the enactment of this law, UN Security Council timber export sanctions against Liberia were lifted, permitting commercial forestry activities to resume. Forest management contracts include concession areas of 50,000 hectares to 400,000 hectares and are open for bids from qualified bidders that demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens; concessions of more than 100,000 hectares are open for bidding from international investors. Timber sale contracts are established through a bidding process for areas up to 5,000 hectares; bidders must demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens. Private Use Permits are licenses issued to private landowners to extract wood and lack sustainability regulations. Global Witness compiled the logging concession data as part of the report <i>Signing Their Lives Away:  Liberia’s Private Use Permits and the Destruction of Community Owned Rainforest</i> (Global Witness, 2012).</p>
   
             <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Global Witness, 2012</p>
   
  
positive.code:           <h3 class='overview_title'>Cameroon forest management units</h3>
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            <p>Logging in Cameroon’s forests is permitted within Forest Management Units (FMUs). This data set displays the FMUs within Cameroon’s permanent forest estate. Selective logging is permitted in Cameroon’s FMUs, which are further divided into logging concessions called annual allowable cuts (AACs).  These logging permits require owners and operators to maintain permanent forest cover. This data set was produced in collaboration between the Cameroon Ministry of Forestry an d Wildlife and WRI. For more information and data sets, see the <a href='http://www.wri.org/project/interactive-forest-atlas-cameroon' target='_blank'>Interactive Forest Atlas for Cameroon</a>.</p>
  
            <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, World Resources Institute.</p>
  
  
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            <p>This data set provides the boundaries of forest areas licensed to companies for forestry and is a compilation of provincial forest tenure datasets across Canada. Tenures for Nova Scotia are not provided, due to changes underway in forest management in that province, and will be added to this data set when available. Much of Canada’s logging activity occurs on Crown (often referred to as “public”) land and is regulated by various provincial commercial forest tenure systems that allocate cutting rights to and confer obligations on recipients of the tenures. It is these tenure systems on Crown forest land that are the focus of this data product. The information in this data set was gathered in order to continue to develop an understanding of how much of Canada’s forest area is under commercial forest tenures, where these tenures (including the operating areas of major forest companies) are located, and who is most likely to control them. This information and these data sets are important because of the extent of tenures and the resulting logging activity over vast areas of Canada’s Crown forest land.</p>
  
            <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Global Forest Watch Canada, 2013.</p>
  
  