8, Feb, 2012
- NEW DELHI: India recorded a net loss of 367 sq km of forests between 2009 and 2011
- officials were unable to explain how vast swathes of forests could disappear from one district in just six months. Khammam had also recorded a 56% loss of forests between 2007 and 2009 as per the ministry's reports. This reduction too had been apportioned to the cutting of plantations by the government in 2009.
- The explanation, blaming the loss of green cover on Naxals, was also odd considering Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, which currently witness a far stronger presence of Left-wing extremists
India loses 367 sq km of forests in 2 years - The Economic Times
- NEW DELHI: India recorded a net loss of 367 sq km of forests between 2009 and 2011
- officials were unable to explain how vast swathes of forests could disappear from one district in just six months. Khammam had also recorded a 56% loss of forests between 2007 and 2009 as per the ministry's reports. This reduction too had been apportioned to the cutting of plantations by the government in 2009.
- The explanation, blaming the loss of green cover on Naxals, was also odd considering Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, which currently witness a far stronger presence of Left-wing extremists
India loses 367 sq km of forests in 2 years - The Economic Times