For starters, 'forest cover' is defined as 'all ... of this granular data plotted on maps, purportedly prepared by the Forest Survey of India but not released. It all has prompted environmental ...

since 2021 reaching 25.17 per cent of the total geographical area in 2023, which puts India's forest cover at 7,15,342. ... called for digitisation of forest maps, geo-referencing of Recorded ...

On the surface, the report brings encouraging news: 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. km.in forest and ...

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 ...

Every two years, the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) produced by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) is released with much fanfare by the government, each time showing an infinitesimal increase in ...

Panaji: Over just two years from 2021 to 2023, Goa’s total forest cover came down by 1.50sqkm or 150ha, as per the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023 released by the Union environment ...

Bhubaneswar: The India ... by Union forest minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday, revealed that Odisha is in the second spot nationally among states showing maximum increase in forest cover inside ...

The analysis says 10.66% area of the forest cover in India was under extremely to very extremely fire-prone zones. The central part of Odisha falls in the category of extremely and very extremely ...

Sixty former government administrators have claimed that the Centre’s latest biennial forest assessment report is scientifically flawed and creates a false impression that India’s forests are in good ...