Felling has begun in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori forest division, with about 2,000 of roughly 146,000 sal borer-affected trees down so far and a retired principal chief conservator of forests asking who independently assessed the need to cut them.
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The Union government has approved the felling of 156,319 sal trees across two districts in Madhya Pradesh, a scale that measures just how deep a beetle infestation has cut into the state’s Amarkantak forests.