DIMAPUR, JAN 14 (NPN) : Nagaland lost a total of 235 sq km forest cover in two years, as per the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021 released by Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on Thursday. The report prepared by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) has been mandated to assess the forest and tree resources of the country.
Nagaland with geographical area 16,579 sq km has 234 sq km reserve forest and 8,623 sq km of unclassed forest, which includes all forest other than reserve forest and protected forest. State has 8,623 sq km of recorded forest areas, which is 52.01% of geographical area.
According to the report, total forest cover in north-eastern states reduced by 1,020 square kilo-meters in the last two years. It revealed that the north-eastern states have a total forest cover of 1,69,521 square km, out of their total geographical area of 2,62,179 sq km, which is 7.98 per cent of the country’s geographical area. The forest cover in the eight north eastern states accounts for 23.75 per cent of the total forest cover of the country.
Arunachal Pradesh lost the maximum forest cover of 257 sq km, Meghalaya lost 249 sq km, Mizoram 186 sq km, Meghalaya 73 sq km, Assam 15 sq km, Tripura 4 sq km and Sikkim lost one square kilometre forest cover. ISFR2021 divides forests into distinct categories according to density of canopy: very dense forest (VDF), moderately dense forest (MDF) and open forest (Open).
The total forest and tree cover of the country is 80.9 million hectare which is 24.62 percent of the geographical area of the country. As compared to the assessment of 2019, there is an increase of 2,261 sq km in the total forest and tree cover of the country.
Out of this, the increase in the forest cover has been observed as 1,540 sq km and that in tree cover is 721 sq km.
In terms of forest cover as percentage of total geographical area, the top five States are Mizoram (84.53%), Arunachal Pradesh (79.33%), Meghalaya (76.00%), Manipur (74.34%) and Nagaland (73.90%). 17 states/UTs have above 33 percent of the geographical area under forest cover.
Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/forest-cover-in-nagaland-declines-isfr-2021/248372.html
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