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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt claim on rise in forest cover false: Study by Anahita Mukherji

Govt claim on rise in forest cover false: Study by Anahita Mukherji

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published Published on Jul 12, 2011   modified Modified on Jul 12, 2011
QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA): If you never quite believed government data showing an increase in the country's forest cover, here's research to back your scepticism.

While the government claims nearly 5% increase in forest cover from 1997 to 2007, three scientists, two from India and one from Australia, have shown decline in India's natural forest cover by 1.5%-2.7% per year. The government claim is presented in the Forest Survey of India's biennial Status of Forest Report, 2009—the latest. The scientists' research paper shows that the government claim was made based on a definition of forests that includes both natural forests and exotic tree plantations. The paper titled Cryptic Destruction of India's Native Forests says, if the area of tree plantations is deducted, there has been a decline in forest cover.

The Union environment ministry's Forest Survey of India told TOI in an email: "As the boundaries of native forests are not available, it is not possible to comment on the trend (in their change)...There is no data to show large-scale loss in native forests at the national level. We cannot say that natural forests are inviolate, but certainlythe contention that there is large-scale or cryptic destruction of India's native forests is an overstatement."

The research paper says total forest cover rose from 660,337 sq km in 1995 to 690,250 sq km in 2005, but the rise is attributed solely to tree plantations, which grew rapidly in the same period—from 146,200 sq km to 300,280 sq km. Natural forests sharply declined in 1995-2005, from 514,137 sq km to 389,970 sq km.

The Times of India, 11 July, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Govt-claim-on-rise-in-forest-cover-false-Study/articleshow/9178245.cms


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