Country's forest & tree cover increases by 1,445 sq km

As compared to assessment of 2021, there is an increase of 1,445 sq km in the forest and tree cover of the country, which includes 156 sq km increase in the forest cover and 1,289 sq km in tree cover.

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The forest and tree cover of the country is 8,27,357 sq km, which is 25.17 per cent of the geographical area of the country, consisting of 7,15,343 sq km (21.76 per cent) as forest cover and 1,12,014 sq km (3.41 per cent) as tree cover.

This is as per the findings of the 'India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) released today at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun by the Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav.

The ISFR is brought out by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) on a biennial basis since 1987. FSI carries out an in-depth assessment of the forest and tree resources of the country based on interpretation of Remote Sensing satellite data and field-based National Forest Inventory (NFI), and the results are published in the ISFR. The India State of Forest Report 2023 is the 18th such report in the series.