Local people are dependent on forest produce for various aspects of their life, therefore they develop practices to ensure that the resources are used in sustainable manner.
Detailed Answer.
Management of forest and wildlife resources are considered as a challenging task because :
(i) There are many stakeholders of forest. Management of forest and wildlife has to take into account the interests of all these stakeholders which become a challenging task.
(ii) Industries would consider the forest as merely a source of raw material for its factories and huge interest groups lobby the government for access to these raw materials at artificially low manage the forest and wildlife resource.
