Hindu: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Sunday that it was essential to give importance to planting saplings to check global warming and climate change. He was speaking after inaugurating the 'Koti Vruksha Abhiyan` organised by the Department of Forests at the Town Hall, here.
Mr. Madhwaraj said that a small country such as Bhutan had 80 per cent of forest cover. There were now variations in the onset of monsoon and seasonal changes. This year, the...