Dear Editor
As per studies since last decade about five million hectares of trees have been cut down every year in our country.This has contributed to extreme niche loss and a drop in large quantum of biodiversity. Every species, including the human species, directly relies on these trees to survive. The trees have given us everything and we’ve continued to leave their homes destitute. We’ve to carry out a reforestation to combat the challenge of climate change and the rapid-fire decline of biodiversity. This kind of action will restore the trees in the country, especially those that have been particular targets of deforestation in recent years.Our governance has to plant millions of trees with the help of NGO’s in areas of dire need.Due to deforestation many species are extinct today. For example the Lion- tailed macaque and Nilgiri Langurs are a small species of primate set up only in our country. In recent times, these species nearly went extinct. Reforestation that’s planting kinds of trees that will profit both Lion- tailed macaque and Nilgiri Langurs populations and the original communities. Even creating wildlife corridors through the connection of old growth trees will help the cause. These sweats will profit the biodiversity of the area by potting tracts that were formerly used agriculturally and by returning aboriginal tree species. With ferocious reforestation sweats, inheritable diversity and tree growth will only increase moving forward. Government should take intiative to plant further trees and cover hovered species arcoss the country.
VijayKumar H K
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Raichur, Karnataka
Environmentalist
