Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the state currently has 10 per cent forest cover, and the aim of the government is to have 16 per cent of forest cover in the state.

The report found that the city's forest cover saw a slight reduction in 2023 by 0.1 sq km compared with 2021, going down to 195.28 sq km in 2023 from 195.36 sq km two years earlier.

Uttar Pradesh's leaders, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, celebrated International Tiger Day by noting the rise in ...

Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar together account for the majority of the 33,024 hectares of plantation carried out along the Ganga river basin under the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s Namami Gange ...

Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes are coastal and marine habitats that naturally capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As informed by the ...

This includes a forest cover increase of 156 km2 (60 mi2, or 0.2%) and a tree cover increase of 1,289 km2 (498 mi2, or 1.16%). But how these numbers account for plantations and forests isn’t clear.

India’s forest and tree cover has risen by 2,261 square kilometers in the last two years with Andhra Pradesh growing the maximum forest cover of 647 square kilometers, according to the India ...