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Article: KEEPERS OF THE JUNGLE: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA, 1855-1900.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Nearly 20 years before the first national park, Yellowstone, was established in the United States in 1872, British colonial authorities in India already had begun a program to acquire and set aside vast tracts of forest lands for environmental preservation. On 3 August 1855, Lord Dalhousie, the governor general of India, reversed previous laissez-faire policy to establish the India Forest Department and annex large areas of sparsely populated lands in India. These lands were declared protected areas and staffed by foresters, fireguards, rangers, and administrators. Over the next decades, forestry in India became an international profession with global specialists ruling an ...