Legal Toolkit on Forest Conversion Factsheet 3: Timber from forest conversion – the need for rules

This Factsheet is intended to inform law-makers about key legal issues that may arise when insufficient or no rules apply to the timber coming from forest conversion, and the risks that may stem from those issues. It also provides questions to guide law-makers through processes of law reform to improve the laws regulating timber from forest conversion.

Overview

Factsheet 1 - Allocation of land

Factsheet 2 - Clearing forested land

Factsheet 4 - Environmental protection

Factsheet 5 - Communities’ rights