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ABC The Government says the legislation changes are part of its vision to expand Queensland's agricultural economy.
The Queensland Government is under fire from conservationists over the granting of new land clearing permits in the north of the state.
The Wilderness Society says weakening of vegetation management laws last year has led to large-scale clearing applications.
Campaigner Gavan McFadzean says the biggest example is a permit granted to Strathmore Station, a big cattle station in the gulf savannah country near Georgetown.
"We've discovered through a tip-off that [land clearing] is now broadscale and at an alarming rate," he said.
"One of the biggest examples of that we've discovered is in the Gilbert catchment at Strathmore, where an application for 30,000 hectares of clearing - that's about 134 Brisbane CBDs of clearing - has been granted."
Mr McFadzean says the legislative amendments are undermining the land clearing legislation introduced in Queensland nearly 20 years ago.
"During the 1980s and 1990s Queensland was clearing at an alarming rate, it was actually an emerging environmental crisis," he said.
"If Queensland was a country, in the early 90s it would have been one of the worst land clearers in the world, on par with Brazil, the Congo Basin, Borneo and Indonesia.
"It was through the 1996 native Vegetation Act introduced by the Beattie government that land clearing was brought under control."
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Gohong, Indonesia - Anang Sugito, 47, stands in front of a 100-strong crowd pointing to a hand-drawn map on the wall. His voice cracks when he talks about the future of Dayak village.
"If we sell off our forests, our children will be landless. They will have their own children, and what would they do?" asked Sugito, 47, the village secretary for the 7,000 household strong community of Gohong, and father of five children ranging from 10 to 18-years old.
In a country where indigenous activists and leaders defending their land are sometimes intimidated, harassed, and killed by palm oil companies and their collaborators, many Dayak villagers - who have practiced shifting cultivation in forests in Central Kalimantan for hundreds of years - do not understand why they have to go to court to defend forests against conversion to mono-crop palm plantations.
"It is only natural, and as it should be, that we do everything in our power to hold onto our land," said Abdul Muin, an ethnic Dayak hailing from the neighbouring village of Sei Dusun, where villagers have filed lawsuits against oil palm corporations with concessions to 11,000 hectares of peatland forest.
While so far 11 companies have had their permits revoked as a result, the country hosts more than 2,500 local suppliers and Muin said it is a constant struggle to fend them off.
There is no way we can cultivate livelihoods in this environment. Oil palm plantations make everything dead, even there are no more birds.
- Abdul Muin, ethnic Dayak villager
Demand for palm oil and energy in Indonesia continues to drive deforestation and displacement of local communities in a country that has already lost 64 million hectares of tropical forests to agribusiness in the past five decades, according to the World Research Institute (WRI), an international research organisation focusing on sustainable energy and conservation.
In recent years, a billion dollar bilateral agreement with Norway has encouraged the Indonesian government to issue moratoriums on forest clearance to protect its carbon-loaded peatland.
Confusion over land tenure, however, continues to cloud forest protection, with potentially devastating environmental impacts on Indonesia's remaining 22 million hectares of peatland forests, which globally make up five percent of peatland area, according to the National Council on Climate Change.
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A leading Cambodian human rights group says more than half a million people have been affected by land disputes in the country over the last 14 years.
Am Sam Ath, lead investigator for Licadho, said Thursday that a wave of land grabs has continued this year, impacting families in nearly all provinces, including disputes between villagers and development companies or loggers.
Before releasing the report, we conducted detailed research. The main point is that starting from early this year, land disputes have occurred again. Thats the reason why we are concerned and issued this report; to remind the government to put extra mechanisms in place to find solutions for the people," said Ath.
The government has rejected those figures. Sar Sovann, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Land Management, told reporters Thursday the report does not reflect reality. There are only 3,000 to 4,000 sites that have problems, he said.
The Ministry does not recognize this figure. How can we recognize it if it is not true? The answer is that we have three or four conflicts out of 1,000 land titles," said Sovann.
As he spoke Thursday, some 300 Kouy ethnic minority villagers protested in Preah Vihear province, saying two Chinese companies were clearing their land.
This report was produced in collaboration with the VOA Khmer service.
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After more than 20 years of civil war and still facing significant internal conflicts, Sudan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). 10 out of the 17 Sudanese states are contaminated, with the regions of Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Eastern Sudan having the highest concentration of explosive remnants of war (ERW).
ERW can refer to landmines, cluster bombs, improvised explosive devices, or other unexploded ordnance.
In Sudan, agriculture is the main source of income, providing employment for up to 80 percent of the population, so landmines scattered across the country are an obstacle to progress.
"The existence of landmines and ERW restricts the movement of people and cattle in rural areas and the use of the land itself. This has affected the economic development of Sudan" said Salah Bashasha, director of the National Mine Action Center (NMAC) in Khartoum, a government body which coordinates all mine clearance initiatives in Sudan.
But he insisted miner clearers were succeeding in their task and cited the Togan area in Eastern Sudan as an example.
"The number of victims is underestimated in Sudan"
"We have recently finished the clearing process and released the land back to the communities. It is a big improvement for the people, not only from the economic side but also from the psychosocial aspect. They return to the rural areas, feel safer, more optimistic and go back to the traditional ways of working mainly in agriculture," he said.
Mine clearance deadline extended
NMAC works in close cooperation with local and international NGOs, as well as with UN agencies. Over the last 12 years, 90 million square meters of land have been cleared of mines and of other ERW with the support of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
With a further 35 million square meter yet to be cleared, Sudan has still a long way to go. The country, which became a state party to the Mine Ban Treaty in 2004, was expected to clear all anti-personnel mines from its territory by April 1, 2014. Because of the ongoing fighting in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile states between the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Sudanese army, the government in Khartoum has obtained an extension of the deadline until 2019.
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Palm Harbor, FL (PRWEB) March 31, 2014
Officials from Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC) recently attended the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) Winter Symposium held in Arlington, VA on February 26-28. NTC, a leading research and document-processing provider for the mortgage and financial industry, was represented by Myron Finley and Brian Ernissee, who were among top mortgage industry leaders and county recording officials who attended the conference.
PRIA, an organization which develops and promotes national standards and practices within the land records industry, holds annual conferences with a goal of providing a venue for industry officials to discuss how to meet local needs with national knowledge. Finley, NTCs Chief Legal Officer, represented the company along with Vice President for Regulatory Compliance, Ernissee, who spoke on a panel at last years conference entitled eRecord from a Submitters Perspective. At the time, eRecordingthe process of filing and recording documents via the Internet as opposed to paperwas a relatively new process, and Ernissee backed initiatives to improve upon the practice and make it widespread, drawing upon NTCs 20 years of experience with property documents.
Several well-regarded speakers were featured at the conference, including Kenneth Gronbach, an expert in demographics and generational marketing, as well as Rob Chapman, President of American Land Title Association (ALTA). Gronbach presented two sessions wherein he looked at the future for the real estate industry, from both a macro and micro perspective, with a special focus on facilitating an understanding of Americas shifting demography and the related opportunities and challenges. Chapman was the featured speaker at the Thursday, February 27, luncheon and spoke about the development of ALTAs Best Practices and their impact on the title industry. According to Finley, both speakers presentations further solidified the importance of adapting industry standards to fit the new compliance landscape; eRecording, in particular, is a major component of best practices, per Finley.
A significant amount of the liability in the industry exists in the gap between the closing of the loan and recording of the documents; thats why eRecording is so important in our industry, Finley said. In our increasingly digital society, an entirely paperless process is the next logical step in ensuring accuracy, as well as compliance.
eRecording differs from traditional recording methods because the original documents never leave ones possessionthey are scanned and submitted within minutes, and are then returned electronically immediately after recording, making processing land records and property documents simple, fast and secure. This process allows documents to be submitted 24/7, and is cost-effective, reducing paperwork.
Finley, who also serves as co-chair of PRIAs Business Processes and Procedures Committee, stated that the conference provided a fresh viewpoint on what is happening within the mortgage industry and the U.S. economy in its entirety; as a result, Finley and Ernissee were able to inform fellow NTC officials about new aspects of the industry, per NTC CEO, John Hillman.
Conferences such as the PRIA Symposium are the perfect forums in which proactive and professional leaders can educate themselves on issues that are impacting our industry, Hillman stated. PRIA sets standards, and that is, to a large measure, what NTC is all about; adopting practices that establish uniformity will help to protect our nations land records, the mortgage industry, and homeowners alike.
NTC, perhaps best known for its expertise in extensive research and document-processing services such as lien release processing, is an advocate for best practices and legislation that standardize the mortgage industry for the betterment of homeowners, land records and the industry at large.
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