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Acres of forest lands reclaimed, thanks to tech
The New Indian Express Hubballi
|August 18, 2025
Paradise Regained
"THE forester's foot is best manure for the forest," so the saying goes. True to the word, foresters in Chhattisgarh have demonstrated how high-tech surveillance and decisive action can bring a paradigm shift in forest conservation, reclaiming nearly 1,800 acres of forest from the clutches of encroachment in the Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve (USTR).
Regaining the vast forest terrain—progressively occupied over the past 18 years—proved quite a task for the Chhattisgarh forest department as it painstakingly identified and cleared designated forestlands, worth over ₹500 crore, of illegal occupation, said Varun Jain (IFS) Deputy Director, USTR.
This story is from the August 18, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Hubballi.
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