~e main objective of this research is to reconstruct the environmental history of Gondar Zuria Worada in the Twentieth century. This thesis tries examining the relationship between human interaction with the natural environment in Gondar Zuria Worada in the twentieth century and its changes. Besides, the research also attempts to investigate the problems associated with environmental changes. Obviously the interaction between man and nature has brought rapid change of the t~vironment. The same is true with the environment in Gondar Zuria W orada spec~fically in the twentieth century. Gondar Zuria was severely -affected by recurring droughts and slowly advancing desertification process. Deforestation had a great role for the coming of soil erosion, droug~ climatic change etc. To overcome these problems, a lot of efforts have been made to launch afforestation and conservation programs by Ethiopian Government Officials, Non Governmental Organizations, prominent individuals and church men. Between 1941-2000 the government has carried out a massive planting of seedlings, soil and water conservation scheme through a "Food for Work" program and others. But the magnitude of deforestation and the vastness of impacts were so *large. Whereas the success to date; however has on been limited. To conduct this thesis( Environmental history of Gondar Zuria worada), I used on archives in the then North Gondar Zone ' Administration, Gondar Zuria Worada Agricultural Office (most of its work was primary source), Addis Ababa National Archives, Gondar University Hospital, North Gondar Zone Orthodox Tewahdo Church Office, Amhara National Regional State Agricultural Bureau. Beside this, attempts .. have been made to collect information through interviews from old-age informants. And I also used published and unpublished sources. Additionally I used satellite Images analysis through remote ' sensing process. J ..