Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967

This Act provides for the protection and management of forests in State of Andhra Pradesh. The Government may declare any land at its disposal to be a Reserved Forest in the manner provided for in the Act. The Act also regulates the use of the pasturage or of the natural produce of any protected forest. The Act provides for the transit possession of timber and other forest produce and regulates or prohibits the occupation, clearing ploughing or breaking up of land for cultivation, the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning of water and setting traps or snares. The Act also states that no owner of any forest shall sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise alienate the whole or any portion of the forest or the forest produce without the previous sanction of the District Collector. Furthermore, the Act provides the powers of Forest Officers appointed under the provisions of the Act.