Urban areas are seeing large scale deforestation, removing the purifiers of polluted city air and destroying the homes of flora and fauna. Over the last 30 years, forests nearly two-thirds the size of Haryana have been lost to encroachments (15,000 sq km) and 23,716 industrial projects (14,000 sq km), according to government data (2016). Artificial forests cannot be replacements, as the …
Tree Transplantation in Visakhapatnam

