Environment and Disaster Management › Protected areas and habitats
हिन्दी — Read in HindiForests, grasslands and mountain ecosystems
Forests, grasslands, deserts, islands and mountain ranges: fires, grasslands mistaken for wasteland, and the protection of the Western Ghats, the Aravalli and the Himalaya. Prelims has ranked States by forest cover and asked what the Gadgil and Kasturirangan reports proposed for the Western Ghats.
Foundation note: The India State of Forest Report: what the numbers mean
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2019: ranking States by percentage of forest cover to State area
Also filed elsewhere
- Aravalli High Powered Committee · on Courts, tribunals and environmental jurisprudence
The High Powered Committee was constituted by the Supreme Court in a suo motu case to examine the Aravalli hills across Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat as a single unit rather than State by State.