Vol 3 Land Resource Inventory Report - Department of Environment ...

Map 3.2: Forest Cover of Fiji
Source: Ministry of Forestry (Unpublished material), 2010b.
Key
Amenity Plantation- is sites of or intended areas for plantations primarily for some amenity
purposes such as reforestation, catchment rehabilitation, and landscape improvement. Timber
production would be permissible to the extent compatible with the retention of the amenity
value, but is not the primary purpose.
Amenity
Pine
Amenity
Hardwood
3.7 PROTECTION FORESTS
Protection forests are areas of highly sensitive forests by virtue of their topography, climate,
soil type or a combination (Ministry of Forestry, 2010). It also includes forest parks and
forest conservation areas (Ministry of Forestry, 2010). Timber harvesting is prohibited in
such areas but restricted to the collection of minor forest produce (Ministry of Forestry,
2010). Conservation areas are a sub-component of the Protection Forest Category (Ministry
of Forestry, 2010). The next section will discuss about conservation areas.
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