Amendment to forest conservation act leaves 28% of India's forest cover vulnerable
The exemptions and dilution of existing provisions open up a range of forest land for exploitation. Adivasis and forest-dwelling tribes will be affected too.
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The exemptions and dilution of existing provisions open up a range of forest land for exploitation. Adivasis and forest-dwelling tribes will be affected too.
Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav informed the Lok Sabha that across India, 305,945 hectares of forest land has been diverted under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 from 2008-09 to 2022-23 through 17,301 projects.
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According to the ‘State of Forest Report 2021’ of the Forest Survey of India, the country’s forest cover is 71.37 million ha. The proportion of area diverted in five years may seem minuscule compared to India’s total forest cover, mainly because of the ambiguous definition of forests used by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) | Latest News India
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