The National Mission for a Green India with a planned investment of $10.3 billion over the next 10 years can have a major developmental impact in more ways than one. Such a massive exercise can raise fresh natural capital that is so vital for the tens of millions of people who depend on degraded forests. It can meet the twin objectives of assigning forest land to tribal and other forest- dwelling communities to enable livelihoods‚ and relieving extractive pressures on core dense forests to aid conservation
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TRENDS IN DEFORESTATION IN INDIA AND Conservation CONTENTS 1 ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ new carbon stock estimates for global tropical forests Forest definition (canopy cover %) . 10% tree cover 25% tree cover 30% tree cover 63 43 36 Aboveground forest carbon (Mt C) 4‚356 3‚464 3‚151 Belowground forest carbon (Mt C) 1‚238 968 873 Total forest carbon (Mt C) 5‚593 4‚431 4‚024 89 104 112 Forest Area (M ha) Average Carbon Density (t C/ha) M=million‚ t=metric tons;
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Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting festival in India‚ celebrated on 5 June and even in the first week of July. Van Mahotsav was launched in the year 1950 by Shri Kanhaiyalal. M. Munshi‚ the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create an enthusiasm in the popular mind for the preservation of forest and planting of trees‚ as “trees mean water‚ water means bread and bread is life”. It was also hoped that it would create tree consciousness among the people. Van Mahotsav‚ a week long
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How were plantations organised to maximise self sufficience On a typical 18th century sugar plantation‚ self- sufficiency was promoted by the workers‚ fuel‚ water source‚ sugar works yard and sugar being on the plantation. The plantation was divided into three. One division was Cane Field and Cash Crops. Another was for WoodLands to provide timber for fuel to heat the boilers and for contsruction. The third was for farming to produces as much as possible for all who lived on the plantation
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The book by William Dietrich The Final Forest has highly influenced my mind. I read things that I have heard about but never heard the in depth as I read. The battle that goes on to save the Pacific Northwest last trees standing. I also learned more on how important the ecosystem is. Dietrich explains how it has been reduced which lead to the crisis of the ecosystem. The threat of disappearance of separate elements of the ecosystem is shown as the result the deforestation. Nowadays‚ tradition logging
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The domestic policy greatly caused the timber shortage in 1803‚ unlike the situation in the 1770s. As a result of Lord St. Vincent’s reform in the naval administration including the dockyards to make them rational and economical‚ the navy suffered from the shortage of the timber supply. In addition‚ the consumption of oak timber increased in the early nineteenth century Britain. The stock of timber in the dockyard was not ample in 1803. The Napoleonic Wars resumed and the navy’s demand for timber
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Deforestation Good morning to lecturer and fellow classmates‚ today I would like to talk about deforestation. Deforestation is elimination of forest and woodland areas on the large scale. Nowadays‚ deforestation has risen to dangerous levels. Deforestation is a common problem among developing and develops countries. Most of the land was used for building and agricultural expansion. Commercial logging causes deforestation. Trees provide timber for building construction‚ furniture manufacture
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Ask a Question about Deforestation and its causes and effects In today’s world millions of people are drained in the culture of urbanization and pushed into cities‚ as a result towns are turning into cities‚ big cities turn into bigger cities and metro-cities are turning into mega-metro cities‚ to the extent that they have to be considered into a state and further subdivide it. Even the profusely increasing population proves to be a major cause for this. But due to all of these things one thing
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Habitat Destruction Our planet is only able to foster life if its delicate balance is maintained. If this balance were to be disturbed‚ the results would be truly catastrophic. The destruction of the earth’s natural habitats is something that happens every day‚ and is a threat to its ecological balance. This type of destruction must be stopped because the state of our world as we know it is at stake. Forests‚ in particular‚ can be found all over the world and are a vitally important
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Questions - History of Reverence/symbolism for Forests (4/2/13) Q2. In the past‚ human attitudes toward forests could be broadly broken up into 3 attitudes. List these attitudes and give an example of each? Which attitude expresses your value for forests? •Reverence – Humans have been venerating forests as representation of spiritual‚ cultural‚ and mythological values. Forests have their links from the earth to sky or creation to underworld. Ex) According to the lecture slides‚ ancient Egyptians
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