Question
Explain how are forest resources affected by major stakeholders.
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Answer
- Forest resources are affected by major stakeholders.
- $(1)$ The Local People:
- These are the people who live in or around forests.
- They are dependent on forest products for various needs of their life.
- They need large quantities of firewood, small timber and thatch for their living.
- They use bamboo for making slates of their huts and baskets for collecting and storing fruits, vegetables and other food materials.
- They use wood for making implements for agriculture, fishing and hunting.
- The local people usually remain busy in collecting fruits, nuts, fodder, medicines, etc. from the forest.
- Their cattle also graze in forest area.
- For all these activities local people use forest resources in a sustainable manner and do not cause harm to forest in anyway.
- $(2)$ The Forest Department of the Government:
- The Forest Department of the Government took over charge of forests from the British in Independent India.
- They ignored needs of local people and started converting vast tracts of forests to monocultures of pine, teak or eucalyptus.
- They cleared of all vegetation of the area and started planting the trees of their own choice.
- This practice led to the destruction of biodiversity to great extent in the given area.
- It benefitted only a few Industrialists and acted as an important source of revenue for the Forest Department.
- $(3)$ The Industrialists:
- Forest biodiversity suffers a great loss due to activities of Industrialists who look at the forests as merely a source of raw materials.
- They do not bother for sustainability of the forest or ecological problems of the area.
- They extract the required materials without replenishing it for future generations.
- For example, after clearing the teak trees in one area, they start new project of cutting trees in another area.
- $(4)$ The Nature and Wildlife enthusiasts:
- They are the people who work for conservation and management of forest and wildlife.
- These include local people who traditionally work for conservation of forests.
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