The document discusses India's national forest policy and social forestry programs. The key goals of the forest policy are to preserve ecological balance, conserve natural forests and biodiversity, prevent soil erosion, and meet fuel and resource needs of rural populations. Social forestry aims to increase forest cover near villages through plantation on wastelands. It was implemented to boost fuel availability and prevent soil erosion. Mass media plays a vital role in raising awareness about various environmental issues across India.

1. FOREST

2. NATIONAL FOREST POLICY.
 Maintenance of environmental stability through preservation and,
where necessary, restoration of the ecological balance that has been
adversely disturbed by serious depletion of the forests of the country.
 Conserving the natural heritage of the country by preserving the
remaining natural forests with the vast variety of flora and fauna,
which represent the remarkable biological diversity and genetic
resources of the country.

3.  Checking soil erosion and denudation in the catchment areas of
rivers, lakes ,reservoirs in the "interest of soil and water
conservation, for mitigating floods and droughts and for the
retardation of siltation of reservoirs.
 Checking the extension of sand-dunes in the desert areas of
Rajasthan and along the coastal tracts.
 Encouraging efficient utilization of forest pro duce and maximizing
substitution of wood.

4. •Increasing substantially the forest/tree cover in the country through
massive forestation and social forestry programmes, especially on all
denuded, degraded and unproductive lands.
•Meeting the requirements of fuel-wood, fodder, minor forest produce and
small timber of the rural and tribal populations.
•Increasing the productivity of forests to meet essential national needs.

5.  Creating a massive people's movement with the involvement of
women, for achieving these objectives and to minimize pressure on
existing forests.
 The principal aim of forest policy must be to ensure environmental
stability and maintenance of ecological balance including
atmospheric equilibrium which are vital for sustenance of all life
forms, human, animal and plant.
 The derivation of direct economic benefit must be subordinated to this
principal aim.

6. SOCIAL FORESTRY
 Social forestry means the management and protection
of forests and forestation on barren lands with the
purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural
development.

7.  Government is trying to increase forest areas that are close to human
settlement and have been degraded over the years due to human
activities needed to be afforested.
 They were planted in village common land, government wasteland,
and Panchayat land.

8.  Trees were to be planted in and around agricultural fields.
Plantation of trees along railway lines and roadsides,
and river and canal banks were carried out.
 Social forestry scheme was initiated in India to increase fuel
availability in rural areas and to prevent soil erosion.

9.  World Forest day 21 March
 Water & Sanitation day 22 March
 World Resources day 23 March
 World Atmosphere Day 10 April
 Earth Day 22 April
 World Migratory Bird Day 08 May
 World Biodiversity Day 22 May
 World Environment Day 05 June
 Van Mahotasav Saptah 01-07 July
 World Pollution Day 11 July
 Wildlife Week 02-08 October
 World Nature Day 03 October
 World Wildlife Day 06 October
 World Birds Day 12 November
 World Energy Conservation Day 14 November

11. MEDIA FOR ENVIRONMENT.
 One of the most effective way of getting the message across to the
largest possible audience in a country as vast and diverse like India is
through mass media, including television and the English and press.

12.  From the issues like pollution to the climate change, the media had
been playing a vital role in creating awareness and raise issues to
the pertaining topic of environment. The media has been pivotal in
covering the entire country of India in raising environment issues like
drought in Gujarat, Air pollution in Delhi, Ground water level
depletion in Chennai and pollution from coal mines in Jharia, West
Bengal.

13.  Instead of using woods in furniture, plastics could be recycled and
many decorative things could be made.
 Use of renewable resources must be increased to such a level that
dependence on petroleum products is almost abolished.

14. Solar energy, wind energy, bio energy, tidal energy, hydro energy
must be brought into action.

15. THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF
FORESTS.
FOREST FIRES
•According to economy after petroleum well fires, forest fires are
the biggest loss to the nation.
•As we all know, we can't measure the loss created to
environment.
• The cause of forest fire is due to the friction created between
dry winds and dry leaves.
•And as the 3 main requirement of combustion are easily
available
 oxygen
 fuel
 low ignition point of fuel
fire is spread in forest easily.

16.  This forest fire occurred in the
lungs of earth (AMAZON
FOREST) . But luckily it
rained at that time and a
greater part of forest was
saved.