www.pakpositive.comThere have numerous news stories about the massive forest cutting in Shangla and Swat, the conflict-affected area, during the period of militant’s activity in that areas.
The news stories suggested that there has been such a huge deforestation that has not happened during the last 20 years.
In this context, some days ago, I have just seen a study conducted by WWF Pakistan ( http://www.wwfpak.org/wwf-projects/swat_forestcoverchange.php ) in which they have compared the forest damage made during the conflict period with the historic deforestation.
It is bit surprising to know the reality divulged by the study that the de facto situation is antithesis to the hypothesis of those news stories. deforestationwww.pakpositive.com
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