Snow ruins 90pc forests in China

Published February 10, 2008

BEIJING, Feb 9: About one-tenth of China’s forests were damaged by recent winter storms, the worst in at least five decades, and in the hardest-hit regions nearly 90 per cent of forests were ruined, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

The State Forestry Adminis-tration (SFA) said total losses reached 17.3 million hectares of forest in 18 provinces in southern China, said Xinhua.

The agency did not give any value of the losses.—Reuters

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