Tragedy Of Community Forest Research

The tragedy of common is the theory of Garrett Hardin where it is the acting of an individual person independently for his own interest and depletes the resources of common in a particular area of land. For example if an acre of community of forest which can hold forty cows are been shared within households of four with ten cows each, and if one of them add one more cow in the same given area of pasture for his own benefit to generate extra income, so does the others too but the pasture can’t handle all the cows. Therefore, the pasture gets depleted within no time that leads to depletion of the pasture known as Tragedy of the Commons. They may enjoy the profit at the beginning for certain period of time but later it is sure that they are the same people who are going to be the looser.

In the year 2000 (Rural-Urban Friendship, 10 September 2014) the government of Bhutan had brought up with interesting and very useful idea for peoples who stay at the rural area with the …show more content…
The people are the main key to success rather than the cause of failure.
With more number of people getting aware of the community forest and the benefits gained out of it, the number of community forest also increases rapidly within short period of time, which contributes to achieve many development goals like empowerment of local communities, sustaining forest management, good governance and poverty reduction. Local people who have actively involved in the management of forest become protector of local forest resources and they may become professional forest manager who can play important role in local forest development in future.
For a Conservation program within a Community forest to succeed, Community involvement is imperative and government with the interest in forest conservation should introduce statewide polices and legislation so as to protect the forest as a