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Andhra Prasesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today has launched 'Mission Harita Andhra Pradesh' with the theme of 'green cover for a happy living' by planting saplings at Sunkollu village, Krishna district. 'Harita' was a pet project of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (late chief minister of United Andhra Pradesh) but Chandrababu Naidu has now made it a 'mission' with a new slogan Vanam-Manam (forest and we). The objective of the mission is to increase the green cover (Forest Area) in the state to 50 % by the year 2029. Andhra Pradesh currently has 23 % of green cover and another 3 % non-forest, besides 13 lakh hectares of inferior forest. 

Chandra Babu gave a call to everybody to plant one crore saplings alone. We have to double the green cover by taking up plantation in four lakh acres per annum in the next 10 years. Chandra Babu said we have to grow 25-30 crore trees every year. Everyone breathing oxygen should grow a tree otherwise you can't be called a human being, Chandrababu said. Saplings planted would be geo-tagged while a geo-fencing would be provided to guard the plantation. Urban forests would be developed in all municipal corporations in the state, he added. Women self-help groups would be entrusted with the task of dibbling for growth of seedlings and they would be given 100 days of work every year for this under the MGNREGA, the Chief Minister announced. The state government would also establish a tree bank and come out with a white paper and an action plan for implementation of the Mission Harita AP. Ministers, public representatives, officials and others took part in the programme.
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Due to high temperatures fires across Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have burned more than 2,300 hectares of forests and killed six people. Officials says due to increased intensity this year forests being drier as unexpectedly high temperatures and low rainfall in the last two years. Others have said that the fires were started illegally by timber traders. The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), the Indian army, Air force and 6,000 fire-fighters are involved in the efforts to save the forests. The fires had spread to 13 districts in the state of Uttarakhand such as Rudraprayag, Pauri, Tehri, Pithogarh, Nainital and Almora. There were also reports of blazes surrounding two major tiger reserves, Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park. Indian air force helicopters have been spraying water from the region's lakes such as Bhimtal, but were hindered by poor visibility caused by dense smoke. The Indian government is now using a satellite-based fire alarm system that will send alerts to authorities every time a new fire is detected.
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India''s total forest and tree cover has increased by 5081 sq km in the past two years, the latest Indian State of Forest Report (ISFR 2015), released by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), says. Released on 
Friday by Union minister of environment,forests and climate change, Prakash Javadekar, under whose ministry the FSI comes, the mood among FSI officials and the minister was celebratory, as the biannual report was held up as a sign of India solidly on the path of achieving its INDC targets, as the climate change talks went on Paris.
Forest covers of a geographical area includes all lands having a tree density of 10 per cent and more and have a minimum area of one hectare. Tree cover estimation is a sample based exercise and the report explains that it comprises tree patches less than a hectare in the form of block plantations,linear plantations and scattered trees.
The report says forest cover has increased by 3,775 sq km to take it to a total of 7,01,673 sq km, which is 21.34 per cent of the country's geographical area (GA). Tree cover has gone up by 1,306 sq km to a total of 9,2,572 sq km or 2.82 per cent of the country's GA. The mangrove cover of the country has increased by 112 sq km to 4,740 sq km.
Maharashtra, however, saw a decrease in the forest cover to 50,628 sq km out of a total geographical area of 3,07,713 sq km. In 2013 its forest cover was 50,632 sq km, which was also a decrease from the 2011 data. Both reports attributed the decrease to encroachment on forest lands, with the 2015 report adding rotational felling and diversion of of forest area for non-forestry purposes as reasons.
These numbers are all as compared to previous assessment carried out in 2013.
The 2013 ISFR too reported such an increase at least in forest covers. The forest cover of the country had increased by 5871 sq km taking it to 697808 sq km country-wide as compared to the 2011 data. However, mangrove cover decreased by 34 sq km as compared to 2011 data, while in 2011 the mangrove cover had increased by 23.34 sq km as compared to 2009.
The 2015 report shows the growing stock -- the volume of all living trees in a given area of forest or wooded land more than a certain diametre at breast height -- has increased by 110.34 million cubic metre. In 2013, there had been a decrease of 389.11 million cubic metre.
India's carbon sink, crucial in the current need to reduce carbon dioxide from the air, has increased by 103 million tonnes to 7044 million tonnes in 2015. In 2013 too there had been an increase of 278 million tonnes.
Javadekar, buoyed by the report and the good news it carried, declared that such a report had been complied by using high resolution satellite data, so that each tree was accounted for. He added that he would ensure that afforestation meant trees that survived more than just 5 years. He took a dig at a "previous environment minister, whom he declined to name, who had apparently called this government's environmental targets impossible.
Javadekar also added that the government would also focus on reducing encroachment and chulhas that ran on wood for fuel, bringing LPG connections to every household.
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