Udaipur, Aug. 1 -- Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on Saturday stated that the entire world is currently facing the serious challenge of climate change. He noted that rising sea levels, steadily increasing temperatures, polluted air, contaminated water, and rapidly declining biodiversity pose a grave threat to the future of coming generations. In such a scenario, transforming tree plantation and forest conservation into a mass movement is the need of the hour.

The Chief Minister was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the state-level Van Mahotsav (Forest Festival) held at the Dudh-Talai forest area in Udaipur. He remarked that forests are the foundation of human life and that environmental conservation is the shared responsibi...