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Important Questions on Conservation of Plants and Animals
Rajnit's school has invited experts from the Ecology Commission to come and talk about the desertification taking place in India. The experts present the following facts: (i) 25% of the land in India is undergoing desertification; (ii) 32% of total land in India is facing degradation, and Gujarat has around 68% of its land under the process of desertification/degradation followed by Rajasthan with 66%. Rajnit is shocked to hear this. He never imagined that progressive states like Gujarat will have 68% of its land under degradation. The experts tell Rajnit that this degradation in India was the result of loss of vegetation due to deforestation, cutting beyond permissible limits, unsustainable fuel wood and fodder extraction, shifting cultivation, encroachment on forests lands, forest fires, overgrazing. The development is taking place at the cost of ecology, and sadly the same ecology will be unable to sustain population if the destruction is left unchecked.
What is the most serious reason for desertification? Name two other states which are also facing desertification and degradation.
