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Forests are important for many reasons. Over 1.6 billion people depend on forests for food or fuel, and some 70 million people worldwide-including many Indigenous communities-call forests home (Bele et al., 2015). Forests provide us with oxygen, shelter, jobs, water, nourishment, and fuel. The relationship between human beings and forests has been important for the development of society. It is based on various productive, ecological, social, and cultural functions of forests. The cultural functions, including the spiritual and symbolic role of forests, are often not addressed with the same attention as the other functions. The histories of humans and forests have long been entwined. For millennia, forests have held an allure as places of spirituality and striking imagery. They have inspired human traditions and folklore, appearing as symbols of knowledge, fertility, and life. However, human activity is chipping away at the tree line. At the outset of the 20th century, there were approximately 31 million square miles (50 million square km) of forest around the world. Today, that number has shrunk to less than 25 million square miles (40 million square km) (Fanuel et al., 2023). For

Author

Jiwan Lal; Lalji Singh; Tarun Kumar Thakur

Publisher

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780323954822