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Question
List four stakeholders which may be helpful in the conservation of forests.
Solution
Four stakeholders which may help in the conservation of forests are
- The Forest Department of the Government which owns the forest land and controls the resources from forests
- People who live in and around the forest and are dependent on forest produce to lead their lives
- Industrialists who use various forest products for their factories.
- Forest and wildlife activists who want to see forests in their original form
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