Question

what was realised by the government across Asia-Africa since 1980s regarding forest? What was the reason for the survival of dense forest in india?

Answer 1

• Since the 1980s, governments across Asia and Africa have begun to see that scientific forestry and the policy of keeping forest communities away from forests has resulted in many conflicts.
• Conservation of forests rather than collecting timber has become a more important goal. The government has recognised that in order to meet this goal, the people who live near the forests must be involved.
• Some villages have been patrolling their own forests, with each household taking it in turns, instead of leaving it to the forest guards.
• Local forest communities and environmentalists today are thinking of different forms of forest management.

In many cases, across India, from Mizoram to Kerala, dense forests have survived only because villages protected them in sacred groves known as sarnas, devarakudu, kan, rai, etc.