The NGT has asked these officials to submit the detailed response on next hearing scheduled for January 29. Highlighting a decline in Assam's forest cover by 86.66 square kilometres between 2021 ...

Maximum loss of around 1,439.43 sq km was recorded in Arunachal Pradesh followed by Mizoram and Nagaland where the corresponding figures were 1,063.54 sq km and 821.53 sq km of forest cover.

Despite the forest cover loss, Arunachal Pradesh leads all Indian states in carbon stock with 1,021.16 Mt, followed by Madhya Pradesh (608.42 Mt), Chhattisgarh (504.61 Mt) and Maharashtra (464.68 Mt).

According to the report, India’s forest and tree cover has increased by 1,445 sq km since 2021. Forest cover alone rose by 156 sq km, reaching 21.76% of the country’s total geographical area.

The report has also put Arunachal Pradesh in the second spot with 65,882 sq km forest cover after Madhya Pradesh with a total area of 77,073 sq ... including Mizoram, Lakshadweep, Andaman and ...

All northeastern states except Mizoram and Sikkim saw a decline in forest cover with Nagaland’s forest cover vanishing the most by 125.22 sq kms, followed by Tripura by 100.70 sq kms. Forest ...

In Mizoram, youngsters are ... 1980, The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the Mizoram Forest Act 1955. ... When the road is completed, we can cover that distance in 30 minutes. ...

Despite interventions by courts and green tribunals, the government persists in diverting forest land for commercial and other activities. Assam’s Forest Cover Shrinks as Its Government Flouts ...

200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960 “Unprecedented” logging, mining, and agricultural expansion are razing forests faster than they can replenish, report finds.

The Global Forest Watch, which tracks forest changes in near real-time using satellite data and other sources, said the country lost 4,14,000 hectares of humid primary forest from 2002 to 2023 ...

Highlighting a decline in Assam's forest cover by 86.66 square kilometres between 2021 and 2023, as revealed in the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023, a bench led by NGT chairperson Justice ...