As compared to assessment of 2021, there is an increase of 1445 sq km in the forest and tree cover of the country which includes 156 sq km increase in the forest cover and 1289 sq km in tree cover.
Animal lovers and environmentalists with placards, protested today against the excessive trimming of trees on Rishra station platform, rendering hundreds of birds homeless and many dead.
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Producing documents related to the move bearing the CM’s signature, the Delhi BJP chief said the ministers who blamed the LG for felling of trees are left with no moral authority to continue, and hence should resign.
In a joint press conference with cabinet ministers, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Imran Hussain on Saturday, Rai said the Delhi government is serious about protecting the people of Delhi from pollution and natural calamities like heat waves and is constantly working on expanding the green belt of Delhi.
The Forest Department has granted permission to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to fell or transplant 2,940 trees in the North Forest Division, and 450 trees in the South Forest Division.
The trees were cut on Saturday and after a furore on social media and complaints by the green activists, the police filed an FIR.
Though forests still cover about 30 per cent of the world's land areas, they are disappearing at an alarming rate. In the time it takes to utter the word 'deforestation', another chunk of the forest, the size of a football pitch, gets destroyed. Today, deforestation is largely taking place in the fast growing tropical and sub-tropical regions, and in the rain forests, where population density is traditionally low but is now rising. While temperate zones were deforested long ago, it is now the tropical areas that are being deforested very quickly. The rainforests, the regions of astonishing biodiversity, are now facing major disturbances and human impacts.
MMRCL had started hacking trees from October 4 to make way for a car shed, hours after the Bombay HC dismissed four petitions challenging the decision to allow felling of over 2,700 trees in the prime green lung of the city.
In plants, it is known that experiences such as stress can alter the molecular wrapping around the chromosomes, and this determines which genes will be silenced. Scientists now know that events, like traumas and starvation, change animal brains and can be passed on to offspring.
