Importance of forests
Forests are not ‘fringe elements’ or ‘extra fittings’. Nor are they lifeless areas. Parks, estates, grazing lands, deemed forests, and forests are core elements in our natural protection against extreme natural events. The loss of green cover under the guise of infrastructure development is a step in the direction of self destruction (Page 1, “Objections overruled, Forest Bill goes to House unchanged” July 10).
P. David Balasingh,