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FOREST CONSERVATION
Forest conservation is the practice of planting and maintaining forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations. In the United States, forest conservation became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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[edit]1.Defination of forest conservation
2.Importance of forests
3.Role of forests
4.Importance of forests
5.Steps in forest conservation
FOREST CONSERVATION
Forest conservation is the practice of planting and maintaining forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations. In the United States, forest conservation became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Forests are influenced by climate, landform and soil composition and they exist in a wide variety of forms in the tropical, temperate and boreal zones of the world. Each forest type, evergreen and deciduous, coniferous and broadleaved, wet and dry, as well as closed and open canopy forests, has its own uniqueness and together these forests complement one another and perform the various socio-economic, ecological, environmental, cultural and spiritual functions.
IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and turn it into wood, where the carbon stays bound up for hundreds or even thousands of years, living forests are an important part of the earth's climate system. Growing trees soak up CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in their trunks, roots, leaves, and forest soils.
ROLE OF FORESTS
A well-managed forest is a constantly self-renewing resource and provides a wide range of benefits at local, national and global levels. Some of these benefits depend on the forest being left untouched or subject to minimal interference while others can only be realised by harvesting the forest. Among the most important roles of forests are sustainable production of wood and timber products, provision of food, shelter and energy, mitigation of climate change, conservation of water and soil, as well as for recreation and ecotourism. Forests are also important repositories of biological diversity.
IMPORTANCE OF FOREST CONSERVATION
Forests not only provide wood but they directly control floods, drought, soil erosion etc. Conservation of Forests is of vital importance for India. Environmental scientists have calculated what a mature tree of gives to the environment:
1.Releases Oxygen,
2.Checks air pollution,
3.Control moisture and prevents water pollution,
4.Prevents soil erosion and increases soil fertility,
5.Provides shelter to birds and nests.
There is great necessity for conserving forests. With the increase in the Indian population, the area under forest in gradually decreasing.
STEPS IN FOREST CONSERVATION
1. Celebrating ‘Van Mahotsava’ every year during the rainy season when saplings can be planted,
2. Increasing forest area by afforestation,
3. Planting trees on waste lands or lands lying idle.
4. Stopping the felling of immature trees,
5. While felling a mature tree attention should be give to not damaging any neighboring trees
6. Regular measures should be taken to protect the forests from disease and forest fire by spraying necessary insecticides and clearing dry leaves and branches.
7. Overgrazing of cattle, goat etc. on pastures cause roots to be uprooted, leaving the soil loose so prone to soil erosion. Therefore, animal-land ratio should be strictly maintained as in the croft-type animal rearing in Scotland,
8. Most importantly, awareness has to be generated in each person regarding the importance of trees and forest.