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Fourth largest national park in India. Nanmangalam forest: Chennai, Tamil Nadu 24 km 2: The reserve forest area is 3.2 km 2: Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary: Goa 211 km 2: New Amarambalam Reserved Forest: Nilambur, Malappuram district, Kerala Pichavaram Mangrove Forest: Pichavaram, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu 11 km 2: World's second biggest ...
Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests in India from 1864 to 1883, is regarded as the father not only of scientific forestry in India, but as the "father of tropical forestry." [15] An FAO report claims it was believed in colonial times that the forest is a national resource which should be utilised for the interests of the ...
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education; Veeyapuram is a place in kerala is surrounded by the Pamba and Achankovil rivers. This village is under Kuttanad sector and has many paddy fields and streams from both of these rivers. About 15 acre of land belongs to forest department was declared as reserve forest by Kerala forest department ...
Indian Forest cover map as of 2015. Tropical evergreen forests of India are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, [a] the Western Ghats, [b] which fringe the Arabian Sea, the coastline of peninsular India, and the greater Assam region in the north-east. [c] Small remnants of semi-evergreen forest are found in Odisha state.
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.
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Naga-Manipuri-Chin hills moist forests (India) Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar) Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan) South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India) Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India) Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal) Tibetan Plateau alpine shrublands and ...
Conservation Reserves are the legally protected areas which act as a buffer zone or connectors or migratory corridors between two ecologically separated wildlife habitats to avoid fragmentation.