Forest encroachment is a term used to describe the “use and cultivation of forest land by local population
without proper legal entitlement over such land”. The major cause of this encroachment is the increasing population
of the people, “it is an obvious fact that population grows at geometrical rate while food production grows
at arithmetical rate according to Malthus Theory” [11]. Population has been a chief agent of environmental degradation
in most cities of the world.