{"id":34165,"date":"2024-12-23T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=34165"},"modified":"2024-12-23T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:33:49","slug":"india-state-of-forest-report-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/23-12-2024\/india-state-of-forest-report-2023","title":{"rendered":"India State of Forest Report 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, released the India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) at <strong>Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is published <strong>every two years<\/strong> by the<strong> Forest Survey of India <\/strong>under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The first survey<\/strong> was published in <strong>1987,<\/strong> and ISFR 2023 is the 18th such report in the series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The report contains information on forest cover, tree cover, mangrove cover, growing stock, carbon stock in India\u2019s forests, instances of forest fire, Agroforestry, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Findings of ISFR 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The<strong> Forest and Tree cover <\/strong>of the country is<strong> 8,27,357 sq km<\/strong> which is <strong>25.17 percent <\/strong>of the geographical area of the country, consisting of <strong>7,15,343 sq km (21.76%) as forest cover and 1,12,014 sq km (3.41%) as tree cover.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>19 states\/UTs<\/strong> have above <strong>33 percent<\/strong> of the geographical area under forest cover.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Out of these, eight states\/UTs namely Mizoram, Lakshadweep, A &amp; N Island, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Manipur have forest cover above<strong> 75 percent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is an increase of <strong>1445 sq km <\/strong>in the forest and tree cover of the country which includes 156 sq km increase in the forest cover and 1289 sq km increase in tree cover.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Top four states showing maximum increase in forest and tree cover: <\/strong>Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Top three states showing maximum increase in forest cover:<\/strong> Mizoram, Gujarat and Odisha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Area wise top three states having largest forest and tree cover:<\/strong> Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Maharashtra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Area wise top three states having largest forest cover: <\/strong>Madhya Pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In terms of <strong>percentage of forest cover with respect to total geographical area,<\/strong> <strong>Lakshadweep (91.33 percent)<\/strong> has the highest forest cover followed by <strong>Mizoram <\/strong>(85.34 percent) and <strong>Andaman &amp; Nicobar Island<\/strong> (81.62 percent).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The total annual potential production of <strong>timber from trees<\/strong> outside forest has been estimated as <strong>91.51 million cum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The extent of bamboo bearing area<\/strong> for the country has been estimated as 1,54,670sq km.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As compared to the last assessment done in 2021 there is an<strong> increase of 5,227 sq km<\/strong> in bamboo area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The total carbon stock<\/strong> in the country&#8217;s forest is estimated to be <strong>7,285.5 million tonnes.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is an increase of <strong>81.5 million tonnes<\/strong> in the carbon stock of the country as compared to the last assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Concern<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India\u2019s mangrove cover has decreased. It is now <strong>4,991.68 sq km<\/strong>, a decrease of <strong>7.43 sq km.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gujarat, <\/strong>has lost the highest area under mangroves, when compared to the last assessment \u2013 <strong>36.39 sq km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Forest Survey of India<\/strong><br>&#8211; <strong>FSI was established in 1981<\/strong> and is under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.\u00a0<br>&#8211; It succeeded the <strong>Preinvestment Survey of Forest Resources (PISFR),<\/strong> initiated in <strong>1965<\/strong> with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) support.\u00a0<br>&#8211; <strong>Headquartered:<\/strong> Dehradun<br>&#8211; <strong>It conducts surveys and research <\/strong>to monitor India&#8217;s forest and land resources, providing data for national planning, conservation, and sustainable management.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2086742&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, released the India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34166,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34165\/revisions\/34166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}