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“The emerging trends indicate that the rate of deforestation is likely to increase over the coming years. Major policy changes needed to reverse this trend are identified. They include increased commitment towards forest production and intensive agroforestry programmes.”  Those words appeared in a 1982 paper by B. Bowonder published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies. They are prescient given how - in the intervening decades - deforestation has emerged as a leading threat to our environment, our climate, and to public health.  India has lost copious amounts of green space to deforestation in recent decades. Between 2001 and 2018 alone, India lost more than 1.625 million hectares of tree cover. In the same timeframe, northeast India alone accounted for more than seventy percent of the country’s overall tree loss.  In 2016, Scroll.in reported that Indian forests covered a mere 21.34 percent of the country, translating to 701,673 sq km in comparison to 640,819 … Read Full Article about Deforestation: An environmental catastrophe