Question

What are protective forests?

Answer 1

A protected forest is a forest with some amount of legal or constitutionalprotection, or where the habitat and resident species are legally accordedprotection from further depletion.Protected forests of India were introduced in the Indian Forest Act, 1927 in British India and were retained after Indian independence.

Answer 2

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Protection forests are forests that mitigate or prevent the impact of a natural hazard, including a rockfall, avalanche, erosion, landslide, debris flow or flooding on people and their assets in mountainous areas.