Management of forest and wildlife resources …

Management of the forest and wildlife resources is considered as a challenging task as there are many stakeholders of forest. They are those people who are directly or indirectly involved in forest. Management of forest and wildlife has to take into account the interests of all these stakeholders which become a challenging task. Stakeholders of forest are: (i)People living in or around forests are dependent on forest produce for various aspects of their life such as livelihood, food, etc (ii) The Forest Department of the Government who are judicially allowed for owning the land and controlling the resources from forests (iii) The industrialists who use forest products such as timber, leaves, latex as raw materials for their industries (iv) The wild life and nature enthusiasts who want to conserve the forest and wild life.