Rural Poverty and Sustainable Development (Destroying the Environment: Pasture) Case Study: The Surveyed Pasture of Khooki in Poshteab District of the Township of Zabol

Environmental destruction in developing countries is due to several factors: industrial pollution, concentration of the population in cities, water pollution, non-standard exploitation of pastures, destruction of jungles, and so on. Also, activities such as farming on the margins of arable lands, gathering wood from shrubberies, destruction of trees by the poor for fuel supply, and overusing jungles for individual and commercial uses, put an enormous pressure on the environment. The present article, while studying the various forms of destruction by the rural poor in the surveyed Khooki pasture in Poshteab district of Zabol, provides solutions for the preservation of pastures. In this article, after studying the necessary variables from 173 questionnaires (case volume) which have been gathered from 2605 people (statistic community), from the users and exploiters of the surveyed pastures of the Poshteab district, it has been argued that one of the reasons for destruction of pastures in Poshteab has been its users, who are poverty ridden, especially in supplying food for their livestock and their fuel supply, to name a few. In analysing the data which has been done in the factorial analysis method using the SPSS software, the indicator of cutting shrubs is given the first priority and the indicator of irregular grazing is given the second priority in preserving the surveyed pasture of Khooki. In the final stage of the project, employing the SWOT model of analysis solutions for preserving the pastures has been provided.