The Youth Welfare Society for the Protection of Forests, Upper Dir, (Pakistan) has asked the provincial government to amend the NWFP Forest Ordinance, 2002, as it was promulgated without consulting the people of forest areas. In a press release issued here, office bearers of the society including Amir Muhammad, Sultan Raheem and Shabat Khan, said that the controversial ordinance would turn the forest department into a forest force with wide-ranging powers.