Overview
Pakistan’s forests have been degenerated at the world’s highest rate. In its efforts for afforestation and conservation, Pakistani state has done a range of experiments from complete control to community participation to farmers’ cooperatives. It has continued to view forest with a timber-lens consistent with colonial legacy whereas it has not achieved its objectives of conservation. This paper considers the efforts of Pakistani state largely inconsequential and somewhat counterproductive. The paper makes the case of liberty in jungles based on private property rights, free trade of timber and market-friendly policies.
