What circumstances led to the foundation of ‘scientific forestry’ by the German expert Dietrich Brandis?
Answer:
- Brandis felt that a proper system had to be adopted to manage forests and that people had to be trained in the science of conservation.
- He needed legal sanction and rules on the use of forests.
- He felt that the felling of trees and grazing had to be restricted so that forests could be preserved for timber production.
- He set up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865.
- The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906.
- The system they taught here was called ‘scientific forestry’.