Environmentalist Neelam Ahluwalia said that the Aravallis have been "bleeding" for decades due to deforestation, licensed and illegal mining, and real estate development that has razed hills and poisoned aquifers.
The COP Presidency, in a statement, announced the temporary closure of the venue to prevent the situation from turning uglier.
The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving these species to decline worldwide.
Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in 6 yrs
Deforestation must also end, with land use, deforestation and forest degradation contributing 11 percent of global emissions.
Thus, eating 20 per cent less meat may also halve the carbon emissions associated with beef, revealed the study published in Nature.
Mining activities result in deforestation, alter the community ecology of native wildlife and push populations to extinction or migration. This will increase the instances of human-wildlife conflict. These short term economic gains will ruin wildlife habitat as well as impose soil, water and air pollution. Such projects are being challenged by public interest litigators in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
The diamond mining project of Buxwaha forest, MP, will clear 364 hectares of forested land with the felling of 200,000 trees. This mine site has diamonds worth 34 million carats. This same forest land is home to tigers, leopards, foxes, bears and many other wild species. These forests are also home to indigenous tribes whose lives and livelihood revolve around the forests.
Halting and reversing deforestation is "one of the most important things the world can do to limit catastrophic global warming,"
The trees were cut on Saturday and after a furore on social media and complaints by the green activists, the police filed an FIR.
