New Delhi: India moved up one spot to the ninth position in the world’s total forest area rankings and retained its third spot for annual forest gains, according to the United Nations’ Global Forest Resource Assessment (GFRA) 2025.

Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav attributed the improvement to the government’s conservation policies. “The achievement comes on the back of the Modi government’s planning and policies for the protection and enhancement of the forest and massive plantation efforts by state governments,” he posted Wednesday on ‘X’.

Released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), GFRA tracks long-term forest trends and their impact on global biodiversity, climate and sustainable land use targets. This year’s assessment analysed 35 years of data from 236 count

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