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Bhind district in Chambal region has shown remarkable improvement in forest cover with phenomenal addition of 119.81% in comparison to previous report of 2019.

The Uttar Pradesh government has now set a target of further enhancing the forest cover to 15 per cent by 2030.For this, the government has set a target of planting 175 crore saplings in the next five years.According to a government spokesman, ...

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"The ministry may consider allowing CA for the project implemented by the central government/PSUs on degraded forest land in the neighbouring states of Delhi," the DDA said.

The land-owning agency said the ministry should at least relax the guidelines issued under the Forest Conservation Act to allow compensatory afforestation for the projects implemented by the Centre and public sector undertakings (PSUs) on degraded forest land in the neighbouring states, , dda, Land Scarcity, compensatory afforestation

An increase of 1,540 sqkm of forest cover in the recently published Indian State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021 started the year on a green note.

 SRINAGAR : Under ‘One Beat Guard One Village' programme, J&K Government will take 1500 villages for greening of lands outside forests in 2022-23 by providing free saplings, seeds balls and grass slips to Village Panchayats for planting on v

The financial capital lost 2,028 hectares of urban tree cover between 2016 and 2021. As many as 2,141 trees were were felled in Aarey Colony in 2017 alone.

By Jim Ramsay

Roads, hydroelectric projects and other infrastructure construction took over nearly 83,000 hectares of forest land between 2016 and 2021 in India.