Threat to Nepal's forests may affect India's borders
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08/02/1999
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Statesman (New Delhi)
Environmentalists have warned that the Nepali's Government's proposal to allow a state-run body to fell trees in the Terai belt would deplete the Himalayan Kingdom's forest cover and spell doom for the bordering Indian states. Following its recent decision to allow export of millions of cubic feet of timber logs, the government is now considering a proposal to authorise the Timber Corporation of Nepal to fell trees in the forests of the Terai , the southern plains.