Green cover under threat
Submitted by shompa on Thu, 2010-07-29 18:38
Siliguri, July 28: Over 13,000 hectares of forest land has been encroached upon across Bengal, the state forest minister has admitted while expressing apprehension that if the trend continues the man-animal conflict will be on the rise.
Till March 31, 2007, a total of 13,048.376 hectares of forest land had been encroached, according to data available with the forest department.
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