Afforestation, restoration and conservation outside protected areas
Planting and restoration, and conservation outside notified parks: the national afforestation schemes and green credits, trees outside forests, community and other conserved areas, corridors, and the nature of cities. Prelims has asked about the aim of the Green India Mission.
UPSC has asked
Prelims 2014: conserving biodiversity together with traditional human life
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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.