The Science and Technology related to bamboo and bamboo preservation is a very captious subject involves most of the Sciences, Engineering and Technology and Environmental Sciences. Recently the environmental studies related to arsenic have been considered very essential for the people of South Asia, especially for the people of Bangladesh and West Bengal of India because of recent arsenic calamity in groundwater. Similarly the environmental studies related to preservation of wood and bamboo products by the most effective arsenic containing wood preservative is deemed necessary for the conservation of forests in this area, because the forest is the indispensable fragment of global environment. The people should know the benefits and importance of preservative and preservative treated bamboo. At the same time they should have information on different preservatives, preservative treatment processes, and service records of bamboo products, available bamboo species and their possible products. At the same time the propagation, identification and conservation of bamboo through different applied nursing and conservation methods are also essential to know and apply for the protection of this special type of plant. The promotion of mass awareness on these issues is also vital to solve the national and global environmental and socio-economical problems. Wood and bamboo preservation is an active part of modern Forestry Management Practices. The bamboo reserve cannot be increased and cannot be properly maintained without bamboo preservation. There is no book written in English available covering its identification, propagation or artificial regeneration, conservation through nursing and preservation especially for ground contact uses. But the topics are essential for the related students, researchers, teachers, forest conservators, bamboo merchants, bamboo preservers, conscious buyers or users and different fund giving international organizations. This ‘“Conservation and Preservation of Bamboo’” deals with these issues, essential particularly for the people in Asia, written based on 26 years experience, research and review of relevant literatures. This book is mostly a composition of several published research oriented applied literatures written solely by the author, compiled somehow differently. To make the concepts of bamboo propagation and preservation and different relations more clear and subjective, several documentary colored photographs, data and graphs have been added with previous works of different authors. There is an anatomical and morphological similarity among all bamboo species available in the world except different vascular bundle types. Unlike timbers of different timber yielding plants the preservatives and preservation methods once found successful for a particular bamboo species is usually applicable for all species depending on the usage purposes in different climatic conditions. Moreover, some important constructional bamboos are mostly available in all Asiatic countries or can be grown except in temperate regions.

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