Question

What one of the following is the main reason due to which share of forest has shown an increase in the last forty years?

Options

• Extensive and efficient efforts of afforestation.

• Increase in community forest land.

• Increase in notified area allocated for forest growth.

• Better peoples’ participation in managing forest area.

Answer 1

Increase in the notified area allocated for forest growth.

Explanation:

The official increase in forest land is primarily due to the government administration legally designating and demarcating more land as forest zones. This statistical growth represents a legal or administrative change in revenue records rather than an actual physical expansion of real tree cover on the ground.