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A reserved forest (also called a reserve forest) and protected forest in India is a forest accorded a certain degree of protection. The concept was introduced in the Indian Forest Act of 1927 during the British Raj to refer to forests granted protection under the British crown in British India, but not associated suzerainties.
172 acres (70 ha) [citation needed] Utah: Red Canyon-Dixie National Forest [51] 255 acres (103 ha) Wasatch and Uinta montane forest: Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, Pinyon-juniper woodland: Virginia: George Washington and Jefferson National Forests [15] 230,000 acres (93,000 ha) [15] Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests: Virginia: Caledon Natural Area [15]
Specialists of the United Nations report India's forest as well as woodland cover has increased. A 2010 study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation ranks India amongst the 10 countries with the largest forest area coverage in the world (the other nine being Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, China, Democratic ...
Guiana Amazonian Park in French Guiana Forest covered area. This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Over the centuries there was a partial deforestation of climax forests and the evolution of the remainder to coppice with standards woodland as the primary source of wood fuel. These woodlands involved a continuous cycle of new stems harvested from old stumps, on rotations between seven and thirty years.
The Changa Manga forest can be entered from a road off the N-5 Highway near Bhai Pheru and Chunian. At present, the forest covers an area of 48.6 square kilometres (12,000 acres). [ 8 ] It was once the largest man-made forest in the world but massive deforestation has reduced it to less than half its original size. [ 2 ]
By 1995, 70% of previously forested land in the Amazon and 91% of land deforested since 1970 had been converted for cattle ranching. [10] The remaining deforestation primarily results from small-scale subsistence agriculture [11] and mechanized cropland producing crops such as soy and palm. [12]
China has more than 1.4 billion people and more than 70% of them are expected to live in urban areas by 2035. [24] Despite the economic and other benefits brought by fast urbanization and industrialization, Chinese urbanization has led to various problems such as diminishing cultivable land, lack of food security, and environmental destruction ...