New Developments in Forestry


 
 
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New Developments in Forestry

New Developments in Forestry: Since the 1980s, governments across Asia and Africa found that scientific forestry and the policy of keeping forest communities away from forests has resulted in many conflicts. Now, conservation of forests was more important than collecting timber.

The government recognised that to conserve forest, the people who live near the forests must be involved. In many cases across India, forests have survived only because villagers protected them in sacred grove known as Sarnas, devarakudu, kan, rai etc.

Some villagers have been patrolling their own forests, instead of depending to the forest guards. Local forest communities and environmentalists now are thinking of different forms of forest management.

 
 
 


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