As of 2017, People destroyed every things like trees, plants, wildlife, Rocks, Mounts,Sands,Etc for their business as of other hand the wildlife have no place to stay in their respective houses. So they tends to move and comes to roads, House areas etc. Elephant tush (teeth of female elephants), leopard teeth and nails either recovered from dead animals or seized from offenders, were destroyed by setting fire to them.Based on the orders of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests,
In the first phase on March 23, as many as 20 elephant tush, 18 nails of leopards and four leopard teeth were destroyed.On Wednesday, in a similar drive in the presence of Field Director of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), Srinivas R Reddy and Deputy Director Saravanan, 31 elephant tush, 36 leopard nails from Nilakottai, Kargudi, Masinagudi and Mudumalai Ranges were destroyed by setting fire on a forest premises in Udhagamandalam.The Forest Department has started destroying the wildlife body parts and trophies in its possession.This is to convey the message and bring down the demand, market and value for trophies retained privately in estates and bungalows as priced possessions. As part of the drive, it destroyed such wildlife body parts and trophies for the second time on Wednesday.
In just 30 years, India has lost large forests to 23,716 industrial projects.Indian villagers walk towards the Mahan forest during a protest against a coal mining project in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh. Of the 14,000 sq km of forests cleared over the past three decades in India, the largest area was given to mining (4,947 sq km), followed by defence projects (1,549 sq km) and hydroelectric projects (1,351 sq km). Over the last 30 years, forests nearly two-thirds the size of Haryana have been lost to encroachments (15,000 sq km) and 23,716 industrial projects (14,000 sq km), according to government data, and artificial forests cannot be replacements, as the government recently acknowledged.
The government’s auditor has said conditions under which these projects are given forest land are widely violated, and experts said government data are under-estimates.“It (government figure) is just the tip of the iceberg,” TV Ramachandra, associate faculty, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, said. “Our study shows dense forest areas in northern, central and southern Western Ghats have decreased by 2.84%, 4.38% and 5.77% respectively over the last decade.”Currently, up to 25,000 hectares of forests – 250 sq km, or more than twice Chandigarh’s area – are handed over every year for “non-forestry activities”, including defence projects, dams, mining, power plants, industries and roads, the government recently told Parliament. The rate of “diversion”, as the process is called, varies across states.
Punjab diverted about half its forest land since 1980, compared to Maharashtra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, which diverted less than 1% of their area.India’s forests now cover 701,673 sq km, or 21.34% of the country, compared to 640,819 sq km 29 years ago, according to the India State of Forest Report, 2015, the latest available. The rise is explained by planted trees, particularly as mono cultures, which do not replace the diverse, natural forests that are permanently lost.India’s forests increased over the last 13 years, according to data from Indian State of Forest Reports. Such increases are an “outcome of statistical jugglery and the use of flawed definitions by India’s forest bureaucracy”, the Economic Times commented in 2012. Defence projects and dams get most forest land. With 11% of India’s forests, Madhya Pradesh has the largest area under forest cover, followed by Arunachal Pradesh (10%) and Chhattisgarh (8%). Forests cover more than 70% of the area of the northeastern states, except Assam where it is 35%.
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