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The percentage of Pakistan's area that is forest is disputed. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates 2.2% of the total land of Pakistan is covered by forests. On the contrary, Pakistan Forest Institute estimates it to be 5.1%. According to the survey done under the Red Plus programme in 2017, the forest cover of Pakistan is 5.7%.
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). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. [1] [need quotation to verify]
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The Geography of Pakistan (Urdu: جغرافیۂ پاکِستان) encompasses a wide variety of landscapes varying from plains to deserts, forests, and plateaus ranging from the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean in the south to the mountains of the Karakoram, Hindukush, Himalayas ranges in the north.
Forest cover is the amount of trees that covers a particular area of land. It may be measured as relative (in percent) or absolute (in square kilometres/square miles).Nearly a third of the world's land surface is covered with forest, with closed-canopy forest accounting for 4 - 5 billion hectares of land. [1]
These forests are spread around mountainous area of Ziarat and Mount Zarghoon. [3] The mountains range from 1,181 to 3,488 meters elevation. [2] The forests cover an area of about 110,000 hectares, and it is the largest juniper forest in Pakistan. [4]
Temperate coniferous forests: East Afghan montane conifer forests: Hindu Kush and Sulaiman ranges [8] (north Balochistan, FATA, west Punjab and south Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) Palearctic: Montane grasslands and shrublands: Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe: North Himalaya [9] (Gilgit–Baltistan) Palearctic: Montane grasslands and shrublands
Pakistan has conifer forests in most of the northern and north-western highlands. These occur from 1,000 to 4,000 m altitudes. These occur from 1,000 to 4,000 m altitudes. Swat , Upper Dir , Lower Dir , Malakand , Mansehra and Abbottabad districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province) are the main areas covered with ...