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Aravalli Green Wall Project
March 30 , 2023
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- India launched its own green wall project that will, through afforestation, cover roughly 1,400-km long and five-km wide green belt.
- This will be the buffer around the Aravalli Mountain range.
- It is covering parts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
- The ambitious project will involve planting native species of trees and shrubs on scrubland, wasteland and degraded forest land.
- It will preventing eastward expansion of the Thar Desert.
- The green belt will also act as a barrier for the dust coming from the western side of the country to Delhi-NCR.
- The five-km buffer zone of the entire Aravalli covers 6.3 million hectares (Mha) of land.
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