Answers to questions and comments

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  • Equipo Wani Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Costa Atlantica - CIDCA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/wani.v58i0.203

Keywords:

Biodiversity, Forest, Living conditions , Environmental deterioration

Abstract

These are not criticisms, they are observations and that is what this forum is for, to listen to opinions. Regarding the question about the Law of Prohibition and community forestry, we must say that the prohibition is a law that arose in 2006, because in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region, and also here in the North, there was abuse of a regulation that exists in the law, called Minimum Plans, which is used to regulate interventions in dispersed forests, not for compact forests. But many timber businessmen used the trick of using a minimum plan to avoid paying the cost of harvesting in compact forests. The government at that time allowed it. When we (Sandinista government) came to power, INAFOR was a discredited institution. In all this time of government, what we have been looking for is how to wash, little by little, the face of this institution. Things exploded when in places like Kun Kun, about six thousand tucas of precious wood (mahogany, royal cedar and some male cedar) were found that had been felled with minimum plan permits, when in reality they were extractions in compact forests. As this became thorny for the government of the time, which was in the midst of an election campaign, they drafted a banning law, without much technicality, without much legal argument. This law eliminates minimum plans, eliminates replenishment plans, prohibits all management plans, even those that were already paid for, and that is what we inherited in 2007. We then had to sit down and talk with the loggers, including some things in the law of closures, for example, to point out that the Law of Closures, like any other law, does not have retroactive application. 

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Published

2024-11-06

How to Cite

Wani, E. (2024). Answers to questions and comments. Wani, (58), 27–29. https://doi.org/10.5377/wani.v58i0.203

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