Tag: natural vegetation and communities dependent on forest

Tropical Rain Forests grows in areas where rainfall is more than 200 cm. Trees in these forests never shed their leaves at all any time in any part of the year. Trees in these belts have dense growth. Important varieties of tress are mahogony, rubber, rosewood, sisthu.

The tropical evergreen forests usually occur in areas receiving more than 200 cm of rainfall. Semi evergreen forests lies on the dry sides of evergreen forests in Western Ghats, West Bengal, Odisha and other North-Eastern regions of India. The trees in this vegetation are hard wooded, and grow close to each other. Rubber belongs to semi-evergreen forests. Bamboo, ebony and rubber are important vegetation of this region.

Tropical deciduous forests are found in the regions that get 100 to 200 centimeters of rainfall per year. They extend from the Shivalik ranges in the North to the eastern flanks of the western ghats in peninsular India. Whereas Rajasthan consists of Thorn forests. Thorn forests are found in dry and arid regions where annual rainfall is less than 80 centimeters.

Temperate deciduous forests or temperate broad-leaf forests are dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year. Temperate deciduous forests are located in the mid-latitude areas which means that they are found between the polar regions and the tropics. The deciduous forest regions are exposed to warm and cold air masses, which cause this area to have four seasons. The temperature varies widely from season to season with cold winters and hot, wet summers.  When temperature decreases, trees change color and then lose their leaves. This is in preparation for the winter season. Because it gets so cold, the trees have adapted to the winter by going into a period of dormancy or sleep.

Thorny shrubs,

Deltas, estuaries and beaches in coastal areas have peculiar type of vegetation that has aerial roots and can grow in salty water. This is called Mangrove vegetation.

• Joint forest management is a policy of forest conservation in which the government and local communities strive for the conservation of forests.
  
• Chipko Movement: Chipko Movement was a forest conservation movement in India. It began in 1973. Alaknanda floods alarmed people of how deforestation has resulted in the disturbance.
  
• Beej Bachao Andolan is a forest conservatory movement which not only aimed at protecting traditional seeds but also to promote the local traditions of the communities living there.
  
• All of the above movements involved communities. But wildlife sanctuaries are demarcated to limit the entry of local communities into forest areas this is done by the Government and Forest Department. 
  

Environmental conservation,