Question

Write a short note on the work undertaken by Dietrich Brandis

Answer 1

Sir Dietrich Brandis KCIE FRS (31 March 1824 – 28 May 1907, Bonn) was a German-Britishbotanist and forestry academic and administrator, who worked with the British Imperial Forestry Service in colonial India for nearly 30 years. He joined the British civil service in Burma in 1856, shortly after became head of the British forestry administration in all of Burma, and served as Inspector General of Forests in India from 1864 to 1883. He returned to Europe in 1883, dividing his time between Bonn and Greater London. In retirement he dedicated himself to scholarly work, resulting in his monumental book Indian Trees (1906). He is considered the father of tropical forestry and has also been described as the father of scientific forestry. In addition to his work in India, he also had a significant influence on forest management in the United States.

Answer 2

There is a very short answer. At first Dietrich Brandis realised that cutting of too much trees was so so harmful for the whole environment. He realised that a proper system had to be introduced to manage the forests and people .He told that if anybody who cut trees without following the system had to be punished. So Brandis set up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865.