Nepal has an impressive forest cover of nearly 45 percent of its total land area.

Forest occupies a total of 5.96 million hectares or 40.36 percent of the country’s total area while shrubland, with shrubs and small trees, covers 0.65 million hectares or 4.38 percent of the total land mass, according to State of Nepal’s Forests, a nationwide forest resource assessment by the Forest Research and Training Centre of the Ministry of Forests and Environment.

But Nepal’s robust green cover is likely to take a toll with its rising development aspirations and construction of new infrastructure projects clearing forest areas, according to environmentalists.

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