{"id":56565,"date":"2018-02-15T05:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56565"},"modified":"2018-02-15T05:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T05:01:01","slug":"green-cover-in-india-increases-by-an-impressive-8021-sq-km-in-just-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/02\/15\/green-cover-in-india-increases-by-an-impressive-8021-sq-km-in-just-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Green cover in India increases by an impressive 8,021 sq km in just 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to multiple afforestation programs undertaken by the Environment ministry, India managed to increase its green cover by a whopping 8,021 sq kilometers in a span of just two years. The country\u00a0now ranks tenth in the world for forest area and eighth for annual forest gain.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official report,\u00a0over 24.39% of the country\u2019s geographical area now constitutes of green cover.\u00a0Recorded using satellite data and followed up by \u2018ground truthing,\u2019 the total forest cover is estimated to be 7,08,273 sq km (21.54% of the country\u2019s geographical area), and the total tree cover is estimated to be 93,815 sq km, (2.85%).<\/p>\n<p>A detailed breakdown of the numbers reveals that states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha and Telangana have contributed to the maximum increase in green cover.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/130976\/india-forest-tree-green-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/130976\/india-forest-tree-green-cover\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to multiple afforestation programs undertaken by the Environment ministry, India managed to increase its green cover by a whopping 8,021 sq kilometers in a span of just two years. The country\u00a0now ranks tenth in the world for forest area and eighth for annual forest gain. According to an official report,\u00a0over 24.39% of the country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}