खंड 5 No. 2 (2024)
ARTICLES

Human Population Growth and Its Effect on the Forest Ecosystem

Ashwani Kumar Gupta
Regional Institute of Education, Pushkar Road, Ajmer (Raj.)

प्रकाशित 2025-03-13

संकेत शब्द

  • Population Growth,
  • Forest Ecosystem,
  • Biodiversity,
  • Food chain and web,
  • Deforestation

सार

Population growth is the increasing, in the number of people in a population dispersed 
group. Population growth alongside increased consumption is a driver of environmental 
concerns, such as biodiversity loss and climate change, due to resources utilized in human 
development. Natural woodland area making it a suitable place for a survival of biotic and 
abiotic components is usually termed a forest ecosystem. A forest ecosystem consists of various 
plants, animals, and other microorganisms, making it a natural habitat for them. Humans are 
Converting forest to agricultural and urban areas, exploiting species, and fragmenting wild 
lands, changed the demographic structure of forests, altered habitat, degraded the environment 
with atmospheric and soil pollutants, introduced exotic pests and competitors, and domestic 
favored species. Due to increasing human population on planet, the human habituated areas are 
increased and forest areas are decreased, This behavior causes deforestation. 
The deforestation affects on the forest animals ecosystem. The domestic animals like dogs. And 
cats can attack on the forest animals for their feeding and the forest Carnivores can attack on 
the domestic animals, cattle etc. as well as also on the human beings. Changing human behavior 
against forest animals, the hunting behavior against forest animals is also developed.