DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first Forest Act in India was passed in 1865. It would be successively amended in the coming years. The Indian Forest Act of 1927 would become the most consolidated of all the Forest Acts. The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1865 the British government passed the Forest Regulation Act which gave them the right to declare land to be Government forest. Q. Britishers introduced the Forest Act to prevent the tribes from using their own land.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the Forest Act was enacted in 1865, it was amended twice in 1878 and 1927. The British Administration acquired the sovereignty of all wastelands by the forest Act of 1878, which by definition included forests. This Act also enabled the administration to demarcate protected and reserved forests.