Joint Forest Management - Concepts - Chapter 2 Class 10 Geography - Forest and Wildlife Resources - Geography

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  • The Joint Forest Management (JMF) programme furnishes a good example for involving local communities in the management and restoration of degraded forests. 
  • The programme has been in formal existence since 1988 when the state of Odisha passed the first resolution for joint forest management.
  • JMF depends on the formation of local (village) institutions that undertake protection activities mostly on degraded forest land managed by the forest department.
  • In return , the members of these communities  are entitled to intermediary benefits like non-timber forest produce and share in the timber harvested by ‘successful protection’.
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