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Study shows greenery loss
The Telegraph | Roopak Goswami | Guwahati, May 28
The Northeast will lose 2,050 square km of forest cover by 2025, a study on future forest cover changes by Isro scientists has revealed.
The study, published in the Journal of Earth Systems and Sciences, and covering the Northeast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, says majority ownership of forest lands by various communities and largescale shifting cultivation are responsible for higher deforestation rates in the northeastern states.
Six northeastern states - Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura - and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had undergone large changes between 2005 and 2013, were selected for further prediction of forest cover loss. The modelling results predicted widespread deforestation in the Northeast and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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