Kaziranga National Park is a Net Carbon Emitter
According to a recent study conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Maharashtra, and Tezpur University in Assam, Kaziranga National Park in Assam is releasing more carbon than it is absorbing.
- The National Park - home to the largest-population of the one-horned rhinoceros in the world - is thus a net carbon emitter.
- The researchers conclude that global warming would further reduce the capacity of the forests in the region to absorb carbon.
- A similar analysis of the teak forests in Madhya Pradesh by the National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana, showed that the forest acted as a ....
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