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 conservation forests we re talking about 30,000 hectares and also was not faithful or honest in its conduct with indigenous tribes that call those forests home. it s very striking that this report that you covered from
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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/District Secretaries to the Forest Department.
The July Cabinet decision was forwarded to the then Minister of Environment to study the matter and present a mechanism that could vest such lands back with the Divisional/District Secretaries, so they could be released for “economically productive purposes.”