India's natural prowess - its
dense forests, green hills, fresh streams, flower - filled valleys and bamboo thickets double up as a natural
habitat of the rarest of the rare plant and animal species.
In contrast, RED would be more effective in terms of its conservation impact if payments were extended to all remaining carbon - rich tropical
forests, including lowland peat swamp
forests, the preferred
habitat for
dense populations of orangutans, and if the construction of new roads was halted.