With Covid-19 pandemic showing the adverse impact of rampant intervention of human beings with nature, senior officials and environmental experts have called for immediate steps for ecosystem restoration, which is the theme for this yearsWorld Environment Day.
As perUnited Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), ecosystem restoration can take many forms, including growing trees, greening cities, changing diets and cleaning up rivers and coasts.
Bihar government has claimed that forest cover in the state is 15% at present and efforts are being made to raise it up to 17%.