Question

What step have been taken by the government to protect forest

Answer 1

Some of the important steps taken by the government in the regards of forest conservation in India are as follows:

Population explosion has resulted into indiscriminate cutting of forest cover due to increasing demands for land area for industrialization, urbanization and cultivated land etc

1. National Forest Policy:
In this policy Joint Forest management and local villages worked together to manage forest. For this local villages were credited with 25% of the income of that particular forest area.

2. Conservation of Reserve forest:
Reserve forests are mainly located in Himalayan, Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats together with national parks and sanctuaries. In all these areas, commercial exploitation should be banned.

3. Local People Involvement:

Common people can play an important role for forest conservation. But the need is that there should be awareness among peoples. Public support must be generated to achieve the goal of forest production. One of the movement was Chipko Movement (1972).

4. Adopting afforestation Scheme:
Forest serves as a source of raw material for commercial sector of the country. So to fulfill this need for forest based industries for longer time, plantation should be promoted in the barren or fallow land.

5. Increasing Forest Productivity:
The productivity of forest can be enhanced by:

(a) Proper Forest Management

(b) Supplying proper nutritional demand to the plants by inorganic and organic fertilizer.

(c) Controlling disease, pests and weed by adequate insecticides, pesticides and weedicides.

(d) Use of advanced technique for forest tree breeding and tissue culture method.

Answer 2

Forest protection is the preservation or improvement of a forest threatened or affected by natural or man made causes

This forest protection also has a legal status and rather than protection from only people damaging the forests is seen to be broader and include forest pathology too. Thus due to this the different emphases around the world paradoxically suggest different things for forest protection.

In German speaking countries, forest protection would focus on the biotic and abiotic factors that are non-crime related. A protected forest is not the same as a protection forest. These terms can lead to some confusion in English, although they are clearer in other languages. As a result, reading English literature can be problematic for non-experts due to localization and conflation of meanings.

The types of man induced abuse that forest protection seeks to prevent include:

Aggressive or unsustainable farming and loggingPollution of soil on which forests growExpanding city development caused by population explosion and the resulting urban sprawl

There is considerable debate over the effectiveness of forest protection methods. Enforcement of laws regarding purchased forest land is weak or non-existent in most parts of the world. In the increasingly dangerous South America, home of major rainforests, officials of the Brazilian National Agency for the Environment (IBAMA) have recently been shot during their routine duties.[1]