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Forest fires main cause of drop in green cover in AP: Survey [1]

The main reason for the rapid drop in green cover in Andhra Pradesh seems to be hidden in the Forest Survey of India's (FSI) latest data on forest fires.

Publication Date: 
24/02/2012
Economic Times (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh [3], Forests [4], Forest Conservation [5], Forest Fires [6], Survey of India [7], Environmentalists [8], Tribals [9], WWF [10]
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