A report to the NGT reveals 17,600 trees were felled across three Uttar Pradesh districts for the Kanwar Yatra route, prompting concerns over deforestation and legal checks on adherence to conservation laws.
Over 6 six years, Mumbai has seen the removal of at least 21,028 trees, a significant environmental cost for the city’s infrastructural growth. | Environment Stories |
A study published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice shows that conserving the largest trees is a benefit in the face of climate change and, therefore, the environmental emergencies facing the world.
On average, five trees have been cut down every hour for the past three years in the national capital, Delhi, and the estimate does not include cases of illegal logging, data filed in an affidavit in the Delhi High Court revealed.
An international investigation, in which the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CREAF-UAB) has participated