It is very important to protect forests, because they have great
economical significance a Therefore, it becomes the duty of a person to
conserve this self-sustaining ecosystem. Some ways to conserve forests are:
Afforestation: The opposite of
deforestation is afforestation. Planting of trees on a large scale is called
afforestation. Plant as many trees as possible.
Loss of forest cover due to forest fires is also very common. Although
sometimes, the forest fire can be caused by natural processes such as
lightning, but other times, it can also be due to human activities, not always
intentionally though. But to save forests from such fires, it is important to
adopt latest methods of fire-fighting. People should be well trained to control
such fires.
Many tribal communities use the slash and burn form of cultivation,
wherein they grow one kind of crop at a place for some time and after they have
harvested their crop, they burn that area of land and move to some other area
to grow crops by the same method. Approximately, all over the world, 40 million
sq km of land is wasted by tribals by using such technique. This practice
should be discouraged.
Forests should also be protected from overgrazing by cattle, as it
makes the land infertile for use.
Many developed as well as developing countries have already adopted the
use of forests as tourist centers, where the forests are protected as national
parks. This is also a good method of protecting forests by promoting it as
tourist attraction. India has about 92 national parks.
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