COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Conservationists
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Environmentalists
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Scientific forestry
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Villages protected them as sacred grooves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The reasons: (i)In many cases, across India, from Mizoram to Kerala, dense forests have survived only because villages protected them in sacred groves known as sarnas, devarakudu, kan, rai, etc.
Detailed explanation-2: -Equatorial forests are the most dense forests because the equatorial areas of earth receive the maximum intensity and duration of sunlight throughout the year.
Detailed explanation-3: -Clearing of forests over vast areas, the practice of shifting cultivation in certain parts of India, heavy soil erosion, overgrazing by pastoral groups, extraction of timber for fuel, all consequences of human occupancy of the land are the major contributors to the shrinking forest cover in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -The northern slopes of the Himalayas are covered with dense forest.