The dense forest cover teems with birds and butterflies, and natural swimming holes in the rivers are not hard to find.
It is a national policy to raise forest cover to a third of Indian territory from a fifth now.
Meghalaya's enormous forest cover is community-owned, but timber merchants often bypass the local leaders to strike up deals with foresters.
Even under deep forest cover in the California redwoods, the offline navigator managed to get a GPS lock within a few seconds.
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Sustaining existing forest cover, planting new trees and better management of land use is also suggested as a means to slow global warming.
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The scientists found that thanks to current levels of deforestation in the region, rainfall is 6-7 percent lower than it would be with full forest cover.
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The increase, equal to more than 150, 000 square miles, or an area almost three times larger than New York state, would be based on China's forest cover in 2005.
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Tasked with enforcing the law, the park guards often cover the forest on foot, gathering clues to track an evasive enemy.
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They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.
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Reforesting Scotland, a pressure group which wants to recreate the native pine forest that used to cover the moorlands, says many more jobs could be provided by replacing the heather with a mixture of forestry, small-scale agriculture and wildlife tourism.
Known by locals as Kha-Nyou, the rodent is said to be a nocturnal vegetarian that prefers the cover of the forest.
The man said when the strike began he ran for cover in a nearby cypress forest and dislocated his shoulder when he threw himself on the ground.
It also highlighted the subsequent cover-up by South Yorkshire Police following the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
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