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Moves to increase country's forest cover [1]

The government has planned to increase the country's forest cover from 29.7 percent in 2014 to 35 percent by 2020, Environment Minister Susil Premajayantha said yesterday.

Publication Date: 
06/06/2014
Daily News (Sri Lanka) [2]
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Forests [3], Afforestation [4], Sri Lanka [5], South Asia [6]
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