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हिन्दी — Read in HindiAfforestation, restoration and conservation outside protected areas
Compensatory afforestation and the CAMPA fund, tree planting and conservation outside forests, and the schemes that pay for them. Prelims has asked about the aim of the Green India Mission.
Foundation note: Compensatory afforestation, the CAMPA money and the schemes outside forests
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2014: conserving biodiversity together with traditional human life
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PRAMAAN: the Indian Forest and Wood Certification Scheme
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PRAMAAN is India's own framework for certifying forests, wood and non timber forest produce, launched in December 2023.
- It certifies three things: forest management, management of trees outside forests, and chain of custody.
- The Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, operates it, and audits are done by independent accredited bodies.
- It helps Indian producers meet foreign rules that require timber to be free of deforestation.
What changed
29 Sep 2026New
- The first certificates went to the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation and to a bamboo farmer from Odisha.
Also filed elsewhere
- Open natural ecosystems · on Forests, grasslands and mountain ecosystems
India's open natural ecosystems, its grasslands, savannas, scrub, ravines and deserts, are still recorded in many places as wastelands, and lose out in land use decisions accordingly.