There is a difference between forest area and forest cover. Geographical area recorded as forests in government records is forest area. It is also referred to as recorded forest area. All lands, more than one hectare in area with a tree canopy density of more than 10 per cent is called forest cover. Forest cover plummeted from 520,027 thousand to 477,698 thousand hectares over 15 years - a loss of 42,329 thousand hectares. DATA: Total forest area by country; 1990, 2000 and 2005 (forests.
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Thé total forest cover in Indian is certainly 708,273 Sq km, which is 21.54 pct of the total area of the country. Between 2015 and 2017, India has added 6,778 sq km of forest cover and prolonged 1, 243 sq km more of woods cover by Feb 16, 2018.The forest cover (in square kms) in 2017 in Indian by condition and union territory as published by the Woodland Study of Indian.1
State / UT | Geographical Area | Pretty dense | Moderately dense | Open forest | Total forest aréa | % óf forested aréa | % shift since 2015 |
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Andhra Pradesh | 162,968 | 1,957 | 14,051 | 12,139 | 28,147 | 17.27% | +1.31% |
Arunachal Pradesh | 83,743 | 20,721 | 30,955 | 15,288 | 66,964 | 79.96% | -0.23% |
Assam | 78,438 | 2,797 | 10,192 | 15,116 | 28,105 | 35.83% | +0.72% |
Bihar | 94,163 | 332 | 3,260 | 3,707 | 7,299 | 7.75% | +0.05% |
Chhattisgarh | 135,192 | 7,064 | 32,215 | 16,268 | 55,547 | 41.09% | -0.01% |
Delhi | 1,483 | 7 | 56 | 129 | 192 | 12.97% | +0.25% |
Goa | 3,702 | 538 | 576 | 1,115 | 2,229 | 60.21% | +0.51% |
Gujarat | 196,244 | 378 | 5,200 | 9,179 | 14,757 | 7.52% | +0.02% |
Haryana | 44,212 | 28 | 452 | 1,108 | 1,588 | 3.59% | +0.02% |
Himachal Pradesh | 55,673 | 3,110 | 6,705 | 5,285 | 15,100 | 27.12% | +0.71% |
Jammu amp; Kashmir | 222,236 | 4,075 | 8,579 | 10,587 | 23,241 | 10.46% | +0.11% |
Jharkhand | 79,716 | 2,598 | 9,686 | 11,269 | 23,553 | 29.55% | +0.04% |
Karnataka | 191,791 | 4,502 | 20,444 | 12,604 | 37,550 | 19.58% | +0.57% |
Kerala | 38,852 | 1,663 | 9,407 | 8,251 | 20,321 | 52.30% | +2.68% |
Madhya Pradesh | 308,252 | 6,563 | 34,571 | 36,280 | 77,414 | 25.11% | -0.00% |
Maharashtra | 307,713 | 8,736 | 20,652 | 21,294 | 50,682 | 16.47% | -0.01% |
Manipur | 22,327 | 908 | 6,510 | 9,928 | 17,346 | 77.69% | +1.18% |
Meghalaya | 22,429 | 453 | 9,386 | 7,307 | 17,146 | 76.76% | -0.52% |
Mizoram | 21,081 | 131 | 5,861 | 12,194 | 18,186 | 86.27% | -2.52% |
Nagaland | 16,579 | 1,279 | 4,587 | 6,623 | 12,489 | 75.33% | -2.71% |
Odisha | 155,707 | 6,967 | 21,370 | 23,008 | 51,345 | 32.98% | +0.57% |
Punjab | 50,362 | 8 | 806 | 1,023 | 1,837 | 3.65% | +0.13% |
Rajasthan | 342,239 | 78 | 4,340 | 12,154 | 16,572 | 4.84% | +0.14% |
Sikkim | 7,096 | 1,081 | 1,575 | 688 | 3,344 | 47.13% | -0.13 |
Tamil Nadu | 130,060 | 3,672 | 10,979 | 11,630 | 26,281 | 20.21% | +0.06% |
Telangana | 112,077 | 1,596 | 8,738 | 10,085 | 20,419 | 18.22% | +0.50% |
Tripura | 10,486 | 656 | 5,246 | 1,824 | 7,726 | 73.68% | -1.56% |
Uttar Pradesh | 240,928 | 2,617 | 4,069 | 7,993 | 14,679 | 6.09% | +0.12% |
Uttarakhand | 53,483 | 4,969 | 12,884 | 6,442 | 24,295 | 45.43% | +0.04% |
Western BengaI | 88,752 | 2,994 | 4,147 | 9,706 | 16,847 | 18.98% | +0.02% |
Andaman amp; Nicobar Islands | 8,249 | 5,678 | 684 | 380 | 6,742 | 81.73% | -0.11% |
Chandigarh | 114 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 22 | 18.91% | -0.09% |
Dadra amp; Nagar Haveli | 491 | 0 | 80 | 127 | 207 | 42.16% | +0.20% |
Daman amp; Diu | 111 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 18.46% | +0.79% |
Lakshadweep | 30 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 90.33% | 0.13% |
Puducherry | 490 | 0 | 18 | 36 | 54 | 10.95% | -0.67% |
Overall | 3,287,469 | 98,158 | 308,318 | 301,797 | 708,273 | 21.54% | +0.21% |
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- ^'India Condition of Forest Report, Forest Cover up 2017'(PDF). Woodland Study of India. Retrieved13 Feb2018.
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