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Forest Survey Report 2021: India’s mountainous states, already facing climate change, lose forest cover -Vivek Mishra

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Jammu and Kashmir has lost very dense forests, while the North East is top in terms of total forest area loss

There has been an increase in forest loss in India’s mountainous states along its Himalayan frontier, which are already in the throes of climate change, according to the latest report by the Forest Survey of India (FSI).

India’s State of Forest Report is a biennial publication. The report for 2021 was released by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav January 13, 2022.

The report has classified India’s forests into four categories. One of them is Very Dense Forest (with tree canopy density of 70 per cent or above).

The Union territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir, which had very dense forests of 4,270 square kilometres (sq km) area in 2019, had 4,155 sq km of the same forest category in 2021. This is the highest loss of very dense forests anywhere in India.

Another category of forest as defined in the report is Open Forest (tree canopy density of 10 per cent or above but less than 40 per cent).

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