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By nasa's satellite. and they created a pattern looking at one of korindo's concessions over the period of land clearing, using heat maps to show where this forest was cleared and lining that out with hotspots that had detected, creating evidence that suggested that fire was used to clear the land. and this is something that the company strongly denies. they say those fires were likely to have been started by villagers, and it's also something that fsc say they found no evidence of. but the fsc did find, similar to the bbc�*s investigation, that the company, as you stated, cleared high conse...

Kshama Ranawana Environmentalists, Conservationists and the political opposition are strenuously objecting to the decision by the government to hand over the management of “Other State Forests (OSF)” to Divisional/Districts Secretaries alleging the move would be disastrous for the forest cover and biodiversity in the country. It was in July this year that the Cabinet first mooted the idea of handing the management of these lands earlier referred to as “State Residual Forests” by abolishing circular 05/2001 which had transferred the management of these lands from the Divisional/Distri...