Difference btwn reserve forest, natural forest and village forest
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1.A reserve forest or a reserved forest is a specific term for designating forests and other natural areas, which enjoy judicial and / or constitutional protection under the legal systems of many countries. The term forest reserve may also be used in some contexts in these countries.
The term reserved forest was used to designate protected forest areas in British India, under the Indian Forest Act, 1927. The same term is used today in Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to refer to forests that are usually under the jurisdiction of national Forest Departments.
2.A natural forest is a generally multilayered vegetation unit dominated by trees (largely evergreen or semi-deciduous), whose combined strata have overlapping crowns (i.e. the crown cover is 75% or more), and where grasses in the herbaceous stratum (if present) are generally rare. Fire does not normally play a major role in forest function or dynamics except at the fringes.
In Australia, the term "forest reserve" is used to denote forests accorded certain degrees of protection; all activities like hunting and grazing are banned unless specific orders are issued by the government.
3.After the Forest Act was enacted in 1865, it was amended in 1878 . This Act divided forests into three categories: reserved, protected and village forests. Villagers could not take anything from these forests.
Some villages were allowed to stay on in the reserved forests on the condition that they worked free for the forest department in cutting and transporting trees, protecting the forest from fires.
These forests came to be known as ‘forest villages.’
Reserved forest : Reserved Forestsare owned by Government of India and often upgraded to the status of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. ... Protected forest : Protected Forest of India are natural areas where the habitat and resident wild species have certain degree of protection.