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Visit to Lake District or Cumbria: A Mesmerizing Experience

  Brentwood (United Kingdom), 25 August: On 25th August it was a very cold day. As usual, we four of us got ready for our wonderful adventure of Lake District. Although there was chilling cold weather outside there was no dearth of hot water inside to take a bath.  Very difficult to describe the beauty of nature: Suri and Maruthi were wearing thermals. Me and Chetan just wore jackets on shirts. I thought a jacket would serve the purpose. Chetan drove to heaven-like places. It is very difficult to describe the beauty of nature.  Full of grass in every nook and corner: Since I am not a poet or a writer, I will try to explain whatever I see in my own words. Whichever side you happen to glance it was only green and green and the area was full of grass in every nook and corner. It appeared as if someone had very carefully trimmed the same just for us! Impossible to step in: The forests were so thick that it was impossible for anybody to step into them. I had never seen such lush green hil

Forest cover increases by 1,100 sq. kms. in the state

Forest cover increases by 1,100 sq. kms. in the state If you have been tired of hearing depletion of forests elsewhere there’s good news to all wildlife enthusiasts as the forest cover in the state has been enhanced to 1,100 square kilometers in the past decade according to Shiv Raj Singh, APCCF. He revealed this interesting piece of information during a media interaction at Male Mahadeshwara Hills in Chamarajnagar district on the eve of a media seminar recently. At the same time he also admitted that such a feat was made possible due to a combination of multiple efforts: Probably there are any numbers of stake holders in the accomplishment and they include the people, public representatives and the media. Apart from the increase of forest cover a simultaneous development in the hilly and forest terrain is the increase of wild animals, both vegetarian and non vegetarian which again is a welcome development in the overall increase of wildlife. Perhaps after the ‘killing