Question

How were the forest in india affected by the first world war?

Answer 1

In India, the Forest Department cut trees freely to meet British war demands. ... (iii) The Japanese exploited the forests recklessly for their own war industries and forced forest dwellers to cut down forests. (iv) Many villagers took this opportunity for the expansion of cultivation land by cutting down the forests.

Forests were destroyed to supply sleepers for railways and to further expand areas under railways. ... The colonial government thought forests as unproductive and hence cleared them for building dams and layingdown cities.