Afforestation is

The Chipko movement was launched for the protection of:

The process of planting trees in a forest area to increase forest cover is known as ..........

$Reforestation$ is the process of restoring a forest that once existed but was removed at some point in the past.

Give differences: Deforestation and Desertification.

At the beginning of the $20^{th}$ century,forests covered about $......\%$ of the total land area of India,and by the end of the century,this had shrunk to $........\%$.