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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below the passage.   Our country is facing a severe environmental crisis. If it is not tackled on a war footing, it will certainly lead to socio-economic and ecological disaster, which will seriously affect the lives of millions of people, especially the poor. Government data usually understate the extent of environmental destruction. The recent satellite data have revealed that India is losing millions of hectares of forest every year which is many times more than the annual rate', deforestation put out by the forest department.

The latest data regarding loss of forests have been collected by:

A)  environmentalists

B)  satellites

C)  Indian farmers

D)  state government