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हिन्दी — Read in HindiAfforestation, restoration and conservation outside protected areas
Compensatory afforestation and the CAMPA fund, tree planting and conservation outside forests, and the schemes that pay for them. Prelims has asked about the aim of the Green India Mission.
Foundation note: Compensatory afforestation, the CAMPA money and the schemes outside forests
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2014: conserving biodiversity together with traditional human life
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National CAMPA
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The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority holds and releases the money paid by users of diverted forest land, under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016.
What changed
10 Jul 2026BriefThe governing body approved a recovery plan for river dolphins, Project Snow Leopard Phase II, a conservation plan for the Indian rhinoceros and continued support for the Sangai. States must submit Annual Plans of Operation through a digital system and a geospatial laboratory will check plantations by satellite. PIB, 10 Jul 2026: Four new Wildlife and Forestry Conservation Projects for Dolphins, Snow Leopards, Wild Water Buffalo and Indian Rhinoceros approved by GB CAMPA (opens in a new tab)
Also filed elsewhere
- Open natural ecosystems · on Forests, grasslands and mountain ecosystems
India's open natural ecosystems, its grasslands, savannas, scrub, ravines and deserts, are still recorded in many places as wastelands, and lose out in land use decisions accordingly.