More than 6000 trees was felled illegally to start a tiger safari in the Kalagarh forest division of Corbett Tiger Reserve, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) has said in its report.
The Uttarakhand forest department had taken the clearance of the Union Ministry of Forest, Environment, and Climate Change for the tiger safari project saying only 163 trees will be chopped off in the process.
But the FSI in its report said 6,093 trees were felled over 16.21 hectares of land in place of 163 for the tiger safri project at Pakhro in the Kalagarh forest division.