DALTONGANJ, April 21 -- Medininagar forest division (MFD) is gearing up for more purposeful and meaningful afforestation which caters to man and animal both as it will help reducing the man animal conflict.
As the World Earth Day is on April 22 and its theme this 2025 is ' our power,our planet' the MFD is all out to save its water bodies in the forests of Palamu which is 1, 217.92 square kilometres as per the India Forest Report 2023, released by the union minister Bhupendr Yadav at Forest Research Institute Dehradun on December 21, 2024.
Sources said illegal and haphazard mining of stones in Palamu has severely degraded the water bodies.
It was 46 hectares of water bodies in 2011 which has now shrunk to 8 hectares of water bodies all be...