Why was Dietrich Brandis invited and made the first Inspector General Forests in India? What were his suggestions and how were they implemented?

(a) The British were worried by the use of forests by local people and the reckless Felling of trees by traders. so they invited Brandis and made him the first Inspector General Forests.
(b) Brandis made the following suggestions :
(i) Need for a proper system to manage the forests.
(ii) Training for people in the science of conservation.
(iii) Need for forest laws and rules for use of forest resources.
(iv) Restrictions on felling of trees/grazing so that forests could be preserved for timber prediction.
(c) The following steps were taken for implementation of his suggestions:
(i) Setting up of the Indian Forest Service in 1864.
(ii) Indian Forest Act 1865. It was amended in 1878 and 1927.
(iii) The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906 for teaching ‘scientific forestry’.