This is the summary of State of Forest Report released today. The eleventh edition in a biennial series published by the Forest Survey of India estimates that India's forest and tree cover in 2007 is 78.37 million ha (23.84% of India's geographical area). This is an increase over the previous assessment. For the first time, India's forests have been mapped into 16 forest type groups and forest & tree cover has been estimated with due consideration to altitudinal levels.
India State of Forest Report 2009 is an assessment of India
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/india-state-forest-report-2009
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/forest-survey-india
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-systems
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-conservation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/statistics
