Woods and trees – The Hindu (Feb 14 2018)

Woods and trees – The Hindu (Feb 14 2018)

The Environment Ministry’s ‘India State of Forest Report 2017’ based on satellite imagery, may present a net positive balance in the form of 24.4% of India’s land area under some form of forest or tree cover, but this is but a broad-brush assessment. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.

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Word List-2 (To Improve English Vocabulary)

1. revive (verb) – revitalize, restore, renew.
2. monoculture (noun) – the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop in a (farming) field at a time.
3. broad-brush (adjective) – lacking in detail, incomplete, insufficient.
4. insight (noun) – understanding, revelation about, realisation.
5. yield (verb) – produce, generate, give/provide (gain, or financial return).
6. dividend (noun) – benefit, advantage, gain.
7. biodiverse (adjective) – relating to a region having a high level of biodiversity (the number and variety of species (plants & animals) in a particular geographic region).
8. assemblage (noun) – collection, accumulation, combination.
9. endow (verb) – provide, supply, gift/bestow.
10. exploitation (noun) – misuse, ill treatment, unfair treatment.
11. vegetation (noun) – plants.
12. cumulative (adjective) – collective, aggregate, total.
13. hotspot (noun) – a place of significant activity.
14. remediation (noun) – the action of remedying something in order to stop environmental damages.
15. erode (verb) – gradually destroy.
16. pursue (verb) – engage in, follow, conduct.
17. canopy (noun) – top portion of large tree.
18. indigenous (adjective) – native/local, original, domestic.
19. opencast (adjective) – denoting a method of mining in which ore is extracted at earth’s surface by making cut/pit/hole at the surface of the ground (instead of tunneling into the earth).
20. renaissance (noun) – rebirth, revival, renewal.

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