Fire crews worked through the night to keep the large fire at bay, which remained uncontrolled and has burnt through nearly 3,700 hectares, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Friday.
The Katsina StateGovernment, in collaboration with the Agro-climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) project, has recovered 30,000 hectares of degraded land across the state.
The NGT is hearing a plea filed earlier this year by a local resident, who in his original application claimed that the site is a historical water body measuring close to 7 hectares or 84 bighas.
"The national target is 100,000 hectares, and we are developing 70,000 hectares in East Java due to its vast potential and land availability," he remarked in a meeting in Surabaya on Tuesday.