Yes, ministerjee..I do agree with this. Biggest threat to Indian forests
I have been standing with some doubt on this issue from classrooms to classrooms! I admit that this idea that one third of India must be under forest cover has always riddled me.
We have a janatha that is not very serious in curbing its own numbers. Now liberalization has brought in growth and now people has more purchasing power. They want to consume and consume. Even consume land. What forest conservation can such consumers understand?
As foresters, it is a really challenging question that how we can keep all now available forested areas as forests? The tropical regions with its population cannot always hope to go on indefinitely with the process of keeping the lands locked up in the name of conservation.
More than our obsession with increasing the "forested" area (one of my Prof use to joke "in legal parlance, an area even without a blade of grass can be a forest area!), our focus should be on its quality and safe upkeep. Like what the minister said.
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