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Title: Evergreen forest cover down to 10% in Western Ghats
Source:Deccan Herald
Date:20 November 2019
Unplanned developmental activities have triggered a dramatic fall in the Western Ghats' evergreen forest cover in protected areas - dropping to a mere 11% between 1985-2018, a new study has revealed. If left unchecked, this will further drop to 10% by 2029 with agriculture (17%), plantations (40%) and built-up area (5%) making up the rest, showed a simulation study as part of a paper on "Carbon Sequestration Potential of the Forest Ecosystems in the Western Ghats.
