Dimapur, June 23 -- Noted wildlife conservationist and journalist Bano Haralu expressed concern that Nagaland lost 354 sq km of primary forest and 2,680 sq km of tree cover area from 2002 to 2024.

Addressing a workshop on community biodiversity and wildlife conservation in Kohima, Nagaland, on Monday, Bano attributed the loss of primary forest in the state to the fragmentation of forest as a community-conserved area, where connectivity is absent in most places, and hunting of birds and animals is regular.

Notably, Haralu is the programme manager of the Wildlife Conservation Society-India's Nagaland-Conservation and Livelihoods initiative.

She added that the absence of conservation awareness on ecology and indigenous and traditional kno...