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As part of our World Environment Day series, CGAPP is thrilled to bring you another powerful segment from our interview with Meera Chandran of Forest First Samiti. 🌿 We delved into how land degradation in the Himalayas and Western Ghats impacts #urban areas. Meera emphasized that the connection is through water. Urban centers, including major #metros, depend on #water from #forest lands. She highlighted that around 600 rivers originate from #India's tiger reserves, illustrating the direct link between city dwellers and these ecosystems. She shared how #Bangalore’s reliance on the Kaveri River showcases the critical role of forests. The Kaveri water dispute and recent water shortages demonstrate the consequences of degraded forest lands. Explaining that healthy #forests act as natural sponges, absorbing and gradually releasing water, whereas degraded lands lose this capacity, leading to #floods and droughts. Watch the video for more insights and stay tuned as we share further highlights from this enlightening interview. Together, let's drive change and safeguard our #environment. MoEF&CC Indian Pollution Control Association Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) WWF-India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Fermoscapes| ReUpyog| Paving+|Myplan8™| Scrapbuddy| Mushloop| Fitsol| WeIncubate| GREEN AADHAAR| STS Global| LongStraw Carbon Shantanu Pratap Singh Jasmine Kaur Anindya Sengupta #WorldEnvironmentDay #LandRestoration #Sustainability #Conservation #Environment #WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #Urban #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalAwareness #SustainableDevelopment #nature #greenliving #climatesolutions #5june

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The the connections are always through water. And uh, uh, the cities, if you, if you just try and trace, you know, the water source to large metros, you know, you will see that these metros are, uh, surviving because of the water that is coming from any forest lands. So it's a say that almost 600 rivers are originating from India's tiger reserves, right, Right. That's itself is a connection and you sit anywhere in any metro city. I'm sure you're connected to a forest which is providing you the tap water and. Sitting in Bangalore, you, anybody understands, uh, river Kabiri and there has been, you know, Bangalore is, you know, if you just see anytime or remember anytime or recollect when Bangalore was came to a standstill, that was during the call Cavery water dispute. So water is so fundamental to our own existence. The whole of summer this year was extremely difficult for Bangaloreans to survive because of. The low rain conditions and interestingly I was there in Kabani landscape in January and I could already see the signs of water in one of the streams that primary streams of tributaries of river company. We were work working in that zone and. The end of Jan, I, I observed ankle deep water, you know, in, in that particular river, which should have been flowing. And that for me was the day I came back and, you know, I was trying to, you know, use my social media platform to share that information. I figured out that there is already a water crisis happening in, in, in Bangalore. So this is the connection that I would say, OK, so. I understand the water connects us, you know, with any of the forest regions that we can think of, but how is land degradation connected to water like you know? Can you explain that connection in detail? So. I, I I I I I hope if I can just, uh, share a little bit of, uh, my screen to. Yeah. So this is this is a very natural riparian buffer. We call it the riparian buffer. The area which is, you know, on either side of the river bank and what kind of vegetation is found in these riparian buffers, right? The connection is any forest land. Uh, if, if the forest land is, you know, is very rich and diverse and which also has a natural flora in it, it is capable of providing the necessary leaf litter on the forest floor. If anybody has gone to the good intact forest, you will see that constantly there is a leaf litter falling on the ground. And you will never see exposed soil over there. It's like a sponge and every drop of water that falls on that forest floor, first it gets absorbed into the soil and then it's only the remnants of it which flows down as smaller rivulets and streams. If you don't have that biomass and what happens is every single drop of water that flows, in 2 minutes it'll reach the river, carrying the entire topsoil with it and finally into the ocean. All the floods and droughts that we are seeing, imagine with so much rain falling in this particular landscape. When land degradation happens, when forest land degradation happens, that is when the waters the the soils or rather the lands water holding capacity is affected the because the land no more is in a position to basically with or. Hold that water and you know, store that water for a period of low rain. So this is what is the is the is the paradox that we are living in. You have rain, you have too much rain in shorter duration because of climate change. But when your land is degraded, the land is also not in a position to capture that rain for you to use it or rather you know the reversed flow late.

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