Former Minister for Forests Benoy Viswam on Monday called for a review of observations regarding forest cover of Kerala in the State of Forest Report 2011 prepared by the Forest Survey of India (FSI).
In a statement here, Mr. Viswam said that the report had said that forest cover of the State had come down by 24 square kilometres between 2009-2011. This was wrong.
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