Question

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Answer 1

The following developments have come about in forestry after 1980:

a. Government in India has become more concerned about the rights of forest communities.

b. They have  realised that keeping forest communities away from forests have resulted in conflict.

c. Government has started giving importance to conserving forests, to involving local communities.

d. Environmentalist are today thinking of different forms of forest management that involves local populations.

e. For example in many forests in India villagers are protecting forests as scared groves like rai,kan, sarnas etc.


f.  The central government  has passed the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 which safeguards the rights of the forest dwellers.