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Yesterday was #InternationalForestDay. It is a day set aside by the @UN to bring global awareness and attention to the significance of forests to the wellbeing of Planet Earth.
The theme for 2021 is “Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being”.
The theme for 2021 is “Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being”.
The @FAO defines a forest as "land spanning more than 0.5 hectares, with trees higher than 5 meters, and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ."
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According to @Wikipedia, forests provide a diversity of ecosystem services including:
- converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and biomass
- acting as a carbon sink, making them necessary to mitigate climate change
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- converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and biomass
- acting as a carbon sink, making them necessary to mitigate climate change
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This #InternationalForestDay, read about the Adivasi women who sustain & are sustained by their forests.“I was in jail because I fought for my land, not because I committed a crime.I wasn’t afraid of jail then and I’m not afraid now,”says Rajkumari Bhuiya. ruralindiaonline.org/articles/i-kne…
“It’s not as if we planted the trees to eat the fruit.The ppl going to eat the fruits of our labour are still to come. They're my grandchildren &I do this work for them,”says Sukalo Gond, an Adivasi leader from Majhouli,fighting to save the FRA in the SC. ruralindiaonline.org/articles/no-st…
The #FRA is a constitutional provision,we won’t bear an insult to our #Constitution,”says Nivada Rana,from the Tharu Adivasi community,who can't remember a time when the forest dept wasn’t trying to evict residents of the villages in Dudhwa National Park.ruralindiaonline.org/articles/let-t…
