A study by the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has found that unrestrained deforestation of the Aravalli range of hills is eroding its capability to serve as a green barrier to the expansion of the Thar Desert towards Delhi and Haryana.
This is a serious matter that merits urgent remedial action. Increased desertification of the National Capital Region (NCR) and its adjoining areas can pose environmental and other hazards, some of which may be difficult to surmount. In fact, many of the detrimental effects of the loss of vegetative cover of the Aravallis are already in evidence in the
