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what is a forest act
Dietrich Brandis helped to formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865. The Act extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India. The Act was a precursor to the Forest Act of 1878 which shortened the centuries old traditional use by communities of their forests and secured the colonial governments control over the forests.

The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British. Both the 1878 act and the 1927 one sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce. It also defines the procedure to be followed for declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village Forest. It defines what is a forest offence, what are the acts prohibited inside a Reserved Forest, and penalties leviable on violation of the provisions of the Act.


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