Question

Forest are national wealth. explain the measure for conservation of forest.

Answer 1

(a) It is quite proper to say that forests are the national wealth.
(i) Forests not only add to the beauty of a country but they are also an important source of many useful products.
(ii) The wood that we get from the forests, it is important for building and construction purposes, for railway track, ship building, furniture and for fuel. In India, many industries are based on the forest products.
(iii) We get the sandalwood, gums, resins, turpentine oil, honey, herbs, lac, etc from forests.
(iv) Grass grown in forests is used for grazing the cattle, sheep, camel, etc. To great extent, the shortage for fodder is also made up by these forests.
(b) From the given statement, I have learnt that forests play an important role in the life of a nation and make a great contribution in the creation of economic structure of a country.

Answer 2

Forests are considered to be the wealth of a nation since they hold in them the finest of resources required for life. Be it glue resins, rubber, timber wood, fibre or paper, from almost nothing to everything we depend on forests, which make the industries revolving around the forest areas.

But, if the wealth is kept safe in lockers, in form of documents and guarded with tight security, shouldn’t the wealth of the nation-Forests, be protected and well conserved?

Over the past few decades both the government and local communities have resisted the temptation of indiscriminate exploitation of forest resources, and thus conservation of forests in India has become significant.

Of further significance is the fact that forest conservation in India started well before the global concerns of climate warming popularly known as global warming and decline of biodiversity, and thus represents an indigenous response to environmental concerns and not a response to external pressure.