Question

Why were some forests classified as "protected"?

• A. In these, the customary grazing rights of pastorals were granted but their movements were severely restricted.
• B. The colonial officials believed that grazing destroyed the saplings and young shoots of trees that germinated on the forest floor.
• C. Both (a) and (b)
• D. None of these

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Both (a) and (b)

A protected forest is a forest with some amount of legal or constitutional protection, or where the habitat and resident species are legally accorded protection from further depletion. Protected forests of India were introduced in the Indian Forest Act, 1927 in British India and were retained after Indian independence.