Top Highlights

• 3.6 billion people worldwide (nearly half the global population) live in potential water-scarce areas at least one month per year.
• UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) produces a State of the World’s Forests Report (SOFO) every two years and a Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) every five years.
• According to current data, our global Ecological Footprint is 2.84 gha/person, whereas the global Biocapacity is only 1.68 gha/person.
• A major reason for the ecological destruction and the plight of the tribes is the 340-km long Andaman Trunk Road (ATR) connecting the North and the South.
• Over 350 people dead, a million in relief camps, 10,000 km of roads and bridges damaged, heavy loss of property, and total losses estimated to be `25,000 crores – that was the impact of unprecedented rains in Kerala in August 2018.