Editorial | Climate Catastrophe 

The global temperatures have undergone drastic changes over the period of time and the ongoing year has already seen few of the hottest days – on record – in the history of earth with 4 July officially the world’s hottest day ever recorded, breaking a record set just the day before. Not only the hottest day but the ongoing month also happens to be overall the hottest month in the history of our planet. Nonetheless, the alarming Climatic change is not the only major concern which the world faces today. It in fact has various other partners among which the dwindling forests is not a mild concern to be overlooked, ignored or left as it is. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Covid pandemic period all include monitoring of the world’s forests as an essential component of their respective environmental and socio-economic programmes. However, the saddest part is that sustainability of forest ecosystems is harmed by ongoing forest loss and degradation, which in turn not only becomes a cause for increase in overall temperatures but at the same time lowers the capacity of forests to produce and deliver crucial services and maintain biodiversity. Sadly the amount of forest per person on earth has decreased by more than 60% over the past 60 years. This loss threatens biodiversity and has an effect on 1.6 billion people’s lives worldwide. Additionally, it affects the lives of at least 1.6 billion people worldwide primarily in poorer nations, who depend on forests for a variety of reasons. There is a growing fear of the unavoidable and damaging effects of the reduced forest area. While the developed countries to some extent are in the process of forest and Biodiversity conservation, the contribution from the developing countries is not somehow encouraging. Despite this, the developed countries efforts’ are not being satisfactory or substantial enough to tackle the alarming issue. It’s high time that the world’s remaining forests must be preserved, and degraded forest areas must be restored and revitalized in order to flatten or at least reverse the global net forest loss curve and save the planet earth in more than one way.