Abstract
Once upon a time Bangladesh was famous for its tropical evergreen and mangrove forest. But over the years due to over exploitation of forests and its non-participatory management, more than 50% of the forest resources have been depleted. Realizing the grim effect of destruction of forests and to repair the lapidated environmental condition, both the government and non-government organization have taken up afforestation program. The NGOs have added a new dimension in the forest management, which has ensured participation of the community people and protection of the vegetation. Although, the government has also adopted participatory forest management but due to bureaucratic attitude easy access of the poor habitants are restricted in many cases. To overcome these situations, the existing government forestry policy, needs radical modification. There should be room to accommodate the NGOs, grass root organizations and general people in policy formulation, execution and evaluation of the program.
Highlights
Social Forestry programs have been initiated with a view to meet the forest product requirements of local www.ccsenet.org/jas population and to reverse the process of ecological and climatic degradation through proper soil and water conservation and to improve the socio economic condition of the rural people
Since the early 1980s there has been an unprecedented enthusiasm for social forestry (SF) in Bangladesh (BBS 2002)
This is primarily due to heavy population pressure and limited resource base, secondly, lack of integrated planning for development of multiple resource bases with active participation of people resulting in high degree of environmental degradation, as illustrated mostly by deforestation and destruction of Natural resources
Summary
Social Forestry programs have been initiated with a view to meet the forest product requirements of local www.ccsenet.org/jas. At present forest in Bangladesh is in unfavorable situation in terms of meeting increasing demand and not adequate for maintaining ecological balance (Roy, 2003). This is primarily due to heavy population pressure and limited resource base, secondly, lack of integrated planning for development of multiple resource bases with active participation of people resulting in high degree of environmental degradation, as illustrated mostly by deforestation and destruction of Natural resources. In the phase of rapid depletion of forest aggravated by increasing demand for forest resources, and considering the prevailing socio-economic condition of the country, Government has put emphasis on participatory approach in development of forest resources of the country (Alauddin 1998)
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