Ahmedabad: Among the big cities in this country, Ahmedabad has become the biggest loser when it comes to forest cover.
City forest cover 17.86 Kilim Square fell to 9.41 square kilometers, a 48% decrease.
Of the seven city assessed, forest cover increased in big cities such as Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Reducing forest cover revealed in forest surveys on Indian Forest Reports 20021 (IFSR) ‘.
The report for the first time issued a part in the big city of Mega.
It stated that decadal changes in forest cover from ISFR 2011 to ISFR 2021 showed an increase of 68 square kilometers in forest cover in seven mega cities.
The biggest advantage is in Hyderabad (48.66 square kilometers) and Delhi (19.91 square kilometers) while Ahmedabad and Bengaluru have lost 8.55 square kilometers and 4.98 km square, respectively, the report.
This is the first time IFSR specifically covers forest cover in seven mega cities.
Officials at the Ministry of Forestry said that the city corporation may have gone for encouragement of urban plantations, including ‘Mission Million Plus Trees’, but this remains on paper.
The way the city is developing and construction activities are increasing, plantations are not in accordance with urbanization.
An official, citing the 2016 Department of Forest Gujarat, said that the area built – residential, commercial and industrial areas – was 8,168.31 hectares in 2005 and increased by 1,890.12 hectares from 2005 to 2011, to 10,058.43 hectares.
Then increased by 4,085.79 hectares from 2011 to 2016, to 14,144.22 hectares.
Officers said that because of rapid urbanization, increasing demand for homes, shops and technological advancements in construction, built-up areas increased more than double the level in the period 2011 to 2016, compared to the period 2005 to 2011 to 2011.
at the level The state, overall green closure, which includes forest cover and tree cover, increases to 21,870 square kilometers, or 11.14% of the country’s geographical region.
This figure has stagnated at 21,647 square kilometers since 2013.
In the last two years, the state saw an increase of 223 square kilometers.
However, according to state forest officials, there are no changes to dense forest cover, which is defined as a density of canopy more than 70%.
There was a decrease of 60 square kilometers in moderate forests, where the canopy cover between 40% and 70%.
This moderate forest has turned into an open forest, which enrolled an increase.
Officials said the cover of trees in the state was around 5% of the state’s geographical area, while forest cover was 7.57%.