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PROTECTED AREA BY FOREST
A protected forest is a specific term to denote forests with some amount of legal, and / or constitutional protection in certain countries.
Forests have been used by humans since the beginning of civilization for hunting, harvesting trees and other activities. As populations grew there became a need to manage forests for the benefit of humans as well as the animals, plants and insects that live in them. Conservation forestry is the part of forestry that focuses on protecting and conserving forests. There are different aspects to conservation forestry including conservation activity in the forest as well as research of species and eco-systems that exist within the forest.
Forests serve many purposes on earth and each one of these is a science. Providing timber and raw materials for building homes and furniture is just the beginning. Forests also conserve water with erosion control and natural water quality management. They are the habitat for wildlife which, if disrupted, can devastate a whole area. Forests are also natural sinks for carbon dioxide while emitting oxygen into the atmosphere, provide recreation facilities and are beautiful.
After 1825, France and Germany established schools of forestry and only in the 19th and early 20th century were forestry programs started in the United States, Europe and British India. With the increased technological advancements of logging companies where thousands of trees were harvested in a short period of time, laws were enacted to protect forests.
Today, 121 prescription drugs that are sold all over the world come from plant derived sources and 25 percent of Western medicine comes from rain forest ingredients. There may be cures for many diseases in the rainforest plants that we will never be able to discover. The U.S. National Cancer Institute states that there are 3,000 plants that work against cancer cells and 70 percent of them are in the rain forest.
Approximately 50,000 species of
A protected forest is a specific term to denote forests with some amount of legal, and / or constitutional protection in certain countries.
Forests have been used by humans since the beginning of civilization for hunting, harvesting trees and other activities. As populations grew there became a need to manage forests for the benefit of humans as well as the animals, plants and insects that live in them. Conservation forestry is the part of forestry that focuses on protecting and conserving forests. There are different aspects to conservation forestry including conservation activity in the forest as well as research of species and eco-systems that exist within the forest.
Forests serve many purposes on earth and each one of these is a science. Providing timber and raw materials for building homes and furniture is just the beginning. Forests also conserve water with erosion control and natural water quality management. They are the habitat for wildlife which, if disrupted, can devastate a whole area. Forests are also natural sinks for carbon dioxide while emitting oxygen into the atmosphere, provide recreation facilities and are beautiful.
After 1825, France and Germany established schools of forestry and only in the 19th and early 20th century were forestry programs started in the United States, Europe and British India. With the increased technological advancements of logging companies where thousands of trees were harvested in a short period of time, laws were enacted to protect forests.
Today, 121 prescription drugs that are sold all over the world come from plant derived sources and 25 percent of Western medicine comes from rain forest ingredients. There may be cures for many diseases in the rainforest plants that we will never be able to discover. The U.S. National Cancer Institute states that there are 3,000 plants that work against cancer cells and 70 percent of them are in the rain forest.
Approximately 50,000 species of