how did new forest laws affect the hunter forest dwellers
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1. Consolidating and reserving the forest areas and the regions where there
was significant wildlife.
2. To regulate the movement of forest produce and the duty leviable on it.
It defined the procedure for declaring an area to be a Protected Forest,
Village Forest or Reserved Forest. It also defined what is a forest offence and
the acts prohibited within a Reserved Forest.
The law had a negative impact on the lives of the forest dwellers. Many of
them used to survive by hunting deer, partridges and other small animals. They
were not allowed to do this anymore. They were punished for poaching.
Earlier they used to trade in goods like hides, silk cocoons, horns, ivory,
spices, bamboo, fibres, gums, resins, and grasses. They were deprived of this
trade. Large European trading firms were given the monopoly rights to trade in
the forest products.