Forest Conservation in India PDF

Can you find out the reasons for the above mentioned problems? eastern states and parts of Gujarat have a very own set of rules and regulations which do not high percentage of their forests as unclassed allow hunting, and are protecting the wildlife forests managed by local communities....

Can you find out the reasons for the above mentioned problems? eastern states and parts of Gujarat have a very own set of rules and regulations which do not high percentage of their forests as unclassed allow hunting, and are protecting the wildlife forests managed by local communities. against any outside encroachments. The famous Chipko movement in the Community and Conservation Himalayas has not only successfully resisted Conservation strategies are not new in our deforestation in several areas but has also country. We often ignore that in India, forests shown that community afforestation with are also home to some of the traditional indigenous species can be enormously communities. In some areas of India, local successful. Attempts to revive the traditional communities are struggling to conserve these conservation methods or developing new habitats along with government officials, methods of ecological farming are now recognising that only this will secure their widespread. Farmers and citizen’s groups like own long-term livelihood. In Sariska Tiger the Beej Bachao Andolan in Tehri and Reserve, Rajasthan, villagers have fought Navdanya have shown that adequate levels of against mining by citing the Wildlife Protection diversified crop production without the use of Act. In many areas, villagers themselves are synthetic chemicals are possible and protecting habitats and explicitly rejecting economically viable. government involvement. The inhabitants of In India joint forest management (JFM) five villages in the Alwar district of Rajasthan programme furnishes a good example for have declared 1,200 hectares of forest as the involving local communities in the Bhairodev Dakav ‘Sonchuri’, declaring their management and restoration of degraded 16 CONTEMPORARY INDIA – II Reprint 2024-25