The
Kamouaa Forest
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....From
the point of view of the forests, Kamouaa is the most important region of
Lebanon. It covers 30 kilometres by 25, from the valley of Gehanam to the
sources of Kobayat, and from the source of Fnaydek to that of the Nassarahs
of Koubayat. This forest has more than 10 million trees of fifty different
species, the most important of these including the junipers, cedars, and Cilician
firs. The forest has suffered considerable damage throughout its history,
first of all at the hands of the British, who cut down a great number of the
trees in order to use their trunks as sleepers under the railway linking Lebanon’s
North and South. Specialists, including ecologists, who have visited it insist
that the forest of hairy oaks is to be counted among the most beautiful forests
in the world. It stands at an altitude of 1,600 metres and is considered unique
in its charm as an ecological and tourist centre. It is named after the more
than 4,000 hairy oaks that grow among a carpet of sweet marjolam and some
100 other varieties of wild flower. This particular tree is of outstanding
interest, for a square kilometre of hairy oak forest gives off 600 tons of
oxygen per year and absorbs more than 700 tons of carbon dioxide gas.....
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Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.