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Warning Indian forests are “not in good shape”, noted environmentalist Sunita Narain today said the increase in forest cover was “not something to boast of or even noteworthy”.

That is the size of forest missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Does this land exist? Is it encroached upon? Or is it just degraded; so degraded that there are no forests to be counted here?

According to a DTE analysis, there are states where over 30-50 per cent of the land classified as forests is ‘missing’ from the government’s assessment

The government’s focus on pursuing infrastructure projects and efforts to make it easier for business may result in environmental consequences.

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India has "no plan", at present, to change the definition of "forest cover and very dense forest", Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, has said in the Rajya ...

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Indias climate vision is integrally linked to the countrys vision of development that foregrounds the goals of poverty eradication and guaranteeing basic well-being as an immediate necessity to meet the challenge of global warming, the ...

This area of degrading forests is nearly 10 times the area of new ones that the recent India State of Forest Report claims were added.