Question

Which stakeholders play a better role in the management of forests?

Answer 1

Forest stakeholder:

1. The forest resource dependents are called the forest stakeholders.
2. The forest stakeholders include the Forest Department Government, local community, industries, and wildlife conservationists.
3. The role played by the local tribe or community acts better as forest management.
4. For example:

1. Bishnoi community in Rajasthan includes wildlife conservation as their religious part and actively works on forest management.

2. Amrita Devi Bishnoi and other community members contributed to protecting the Khejri trees in the Khejari village in Rajasthan.

3. The Chipko movement initiated by women in Garhwal district by hugging the trees from being cut down by the contractors was an act of forest conservation.

4. The conservation of the degraded Sal forest in the Arabari forest led to the forest revival.