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Forest cover is the total geographical area declared as forest by the government. As of 2021, the total forest cover in India is 80.9 million hectares, which is 21.71 per cent of the total geographical area. [2] There is a 1,540 sq.km increase in forest cover over 2019. Madhya Pradesh has the highest forest cover by area followed by Arunachal ...
According to the Indian State of Forest Report (2021), the total mangrove cover in India is approximately 4,992 km 2, which constitutes about 0.15% of the country's total geographical area. [11] According to the 2023 report, it decreased to 4,991.68 km square, a decrease of 7.43 sq km in 2 years.
As of 2020, India had the 10th largest forest cover in the world. [36] From 2010 to 2020, India was the country with the 3rd largest maximum average annual net gains in forest area and accounted for 2% of the world's total forest area. [37] In 2021, India's total forest cover was 80.9 million hectares, which is 24.62% of the country's land area ...
As of 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates India's forest cover to be about 68 million hectares, or 22% of the country's area [4] [5] The 2013 Forest Survey of India states its forest cover increased to 69.8 million hectares by 2012, per satellite measurements; this represents an increase of 5,871 square ...
Forest Survey of India (FSI), founded in June 1981 and headquartered at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, is the Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organisation which conducts forest surveys, studies and researches to periodically monitor the changing situations of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning, conservation and sustainable ...
The commission was set up in 2003 to review and assess India's policy and law and their effect on India's forests. It was given instructions to make recommendations on ways India could achieve sustainable forest and ecological security. [2] The report made over 300 recommendations to the Indian Board of Wildlife.
The South Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are home to nearly 44% of the elephants, 35% of the tigers and 31% of the leopards in India. [10] The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India.
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.