CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION

OF FOREST WEALTH IN INDIA

RUBEL. C. PATIL
BA.LLB; FIRST YEAR; SEC: B; ROLL NO. :45

We live in a concrete jungle and if someone comes and

destroys it, we’ll be left devasted. it is immensely difficult
for us to imagine what the wildlife must go through when
they’re habitats are snatched away because of thousands of
companies exploiting the forests for their production and
this is just one of the parts of the problem. the first time a
measure was taken for preserving the forest wealth of our
country was in 1980 through the forest preservation act.
which restricted any use of the forest which was deemed to
be a non-forest process and only reforestation was allowed.
these provisions did go on to help with conditions by
increasing the coverage of land by forests from 19.49% in
1987 to 21.67% in 2019. despite that, there still is a need
for a significant development. which is being obstructed by
the many other factors that cause depletion of forests.
forest fires being one of the root causes for it. in 2021, until
now there has been around 82,170 forest fire alerts. many
of the reasons to these fires is absurd which could have
been prevented by taking careful measures. its high time to
understand the cruciality of the conditions. to recognize
what the extinction of forests may cost us. its appalling to
see how we were taught about deforestation and how it
causes climate change and global warming since we were 7-
year-old and now being 20 years old we still are facing
climate change and get to hear about how our earth is
getting more heated. we many times forget that the forests
that we have cut off were home to many wildlife. we look
at news showing wild animals entering cities and causing
panic amongst people whereas the point that we’re missing
here is those animals went rogue in our cities only because
we have occupied there home and they have nowhere else
to go. today, we are in need of oxygen cylinders because of
a virus but we’re not far away from the day that we’ll need
oxygen cylinders because we have sucked out the life out of
the last tree on earth.