This is an Act to establish the Central Environmental Authority in the 1980s. The act reflects changing forest management priorities. The Act highlights rational exploitation of wildlife and forest resources, regulating the marketing of threatened forest resources, conserving threatened floral species and promoting efforts on reforestation, timber stand improvement, forest protection, land classification, forest occupancy management, industrial tree plantation, parks & wildlife management, multiple use forest, timber management and forest research. The Act calls for a rational scheme for the use and conservation of land resources including land inventory and classification and determination of present land uses. The Act also has clauses related to obtaining environmental approval of investment projects.
National Environmental (Amendment) Act, No. 53 of 2000
Last updated: 11 July, 2011
