Forest provide essential environmental, social and economic functions, but alarming deforestation rates. Forest conservation concerned with the overall economic, legal and social aspects and with the essentially scientific and technical aspects, especially silviculture, protection and forest regulations. This book includes an introduction, forest conservation management, forest management and policies, forest protection and management, forest hydrology and management, the forest regions and traditional forest management.

This book will be useful not only for students, teachers and researchers but also to environmentalists , foresters, NGO’s and policy planners.