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LOCAL PEOPLE

INUSTRIALISTS

FOREST DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT

WILDLIFE AND NATURE ENTHUSIASTS

1. LOCAL PEOPLE• THEY NEED LARGE QUANTITIES OF FIREWOOD , SMALL

TIMBER AND THATCH.

• THEY USE BAMBOO WHICH IS USED TO MAKE SLATS FOR COLLECTING AND STORING FOOD MATERIALS.

• IMPLEMENTS FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHING AND HUNTING ARE LARGELY MADE OF WOOD .

• PEOPLE GATHER FRUITS , NUTS AND MEDICINES FROM THE FOREST, CATTLES ALSO GRAZE IN FOREST AREAS OR FEED ON OTHER FODDER WHICH IS COLLECTED FROM FOREST.

Local people’s needs from trees

2. INDUSTRIALISTS

• Industries would consider the forest as merely a source of raw material for its factories.

• Huge interest – groups lobby government for access to these raw material at artificially low rates.

• Since these industries have a greater reach than the local people, they are not interested in the sustainability of the forest in one particular area.

3. Forest department of government

• The forest department of the government owns the land and controls the resources from forest.

• Before the British came and took over most of our forest areas, people had been living in these forest for centuries.

• The forest department in independent India took over from the British but local needs continued to be ignored in the management practices.

• Thus vast tracts of forest have been converted to monocultures of pine, teak or eucalyptus.

• In order to plant these trees, huge areas are first cleared of all vegetation.

4. Wildlife and nature enthusiasts

• The wildlife and nature enthusiasts are those who want to conserve nature in its pristine form.

• There have been enough instances of local people working traditionally for conservation of forest. For ex: bishnoi community in Rajasthan.

• The government of India recently instituted an ‘Amrita Devi Bishnoi national award for wildlife conservation’.

• we need to accept that human intervention has been very much a part of the forest landscape.

• The kind of economic and social development we want will ultimately determine whether the environment will be conserved or further destroyed.