Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub

The National Forest Policy of India (1988) recommended that 'The national goal should be to have a minimum of one-third of the total land area of the country under forest or tree cover. In the hills and in mountainous regions, the aim should be to maintain two-third of the area under such cover in order to prevent erosion and land degradation and to ensure the stability of the fragile eco-system'.