The Financial Express1dOpinion
India’s forest cover report: Balancing progress and challenges
India has added 156.41 sq. km.of forest cover within Recorded Forest Areas (RFA) and achieved a total increase of 1,445.81 sq ...
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India lost more than a million hectares of forest cover in 17 years — that’s more than four times the size of Goa
India has lost over 1.6 million hectares of forests in the last 17 years. The total forest cover loss has caused nearly 172 metric tons of carbon emission in India. The north-eastern states of ...
Deccan Herald1mon
Forest loss: Numbers can’t cover it
The Forest Survey of India (FSI) defines a forest as land covering at least one hectare and with a tree cover density of 10%. FSI also considers trees in less than one hectare as tree cover ...
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Ecostani: Western Ghats and hill states lose forest; most growth outside reserved forests
The Forest Survey of India which provides an assessment of country’s green cover has recorded a decline in forest cover in eight Himalayan states over the period between 2021 and 2023 and a ...
The New Indian Express1mon
North-East lost forest cover equal to thrice Delhi’s area in last two decades
The 18th edition of the India State ... 4,490 sq km of forest cover at the average rate of 224 sq km per year despite inclusion of the area under plantation in SIFR. Total loss within the last ...
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Telangana lost 100 sq km of forest cover, says report
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded a net loss of 100 square kilometres in forest cover, according to the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023. The report, which compares data from 2021 to 2023 ...