Total forest area has declined by three per cent between 1990 and 2015 from 4,128 million hectares to 3,999 million hectares -- a loss of 129 million hectares. Significantly, ...

India's forest and tree cover has been on a rise and currently stands at 25.17 per cent of the total geographical area, according to India's Fourth Biennial Report. Notably, between 2005 and 2021 ...

As forest expansion remained stable, the global net forest loss between 2000 and 2010 was 5.2 million hectares per year. (See data .) Global rates of deforestation do not capture the full damage ...

• The total forest and tree cover is 24.39 per cent of the geographical area of the country. • Much of the increase in the forest cover has been observed in Very Dense Forest (VDF).

In a report submitted to the NGT last week, the ministry said that as of March 2024, a total of 13,05,668.1 hectares (or 13,056 sq km) of forest area was under encroachment in 25 states and UTs ...

After six years of implementation of a government decision aiming at expanding the special use forest area from 2.2 to 2.4 million hectares in 2020, Vietnam has developed special use forests spanning ...

At the same time, Haryana with a total forest area cover of just 1,559 sq km, of which 1,027 hectare or10.27 sq km is encroached upon. Total geographical area of Haryana is 44,212 square kilometre.

Out of the total geographical area of 3,42,239sqkm, the present forest cover is 16,655sqkm, which is 4.87%. The forest cover in the state two years ago was 16,630sqkm.

The total area of forest land in Bangladesh is about 2.6 million hectares (BFD, 2015). Out of which 1.6 million hectares are under the control of the Forest Department (BFD).

Among the Capital’s districts, south Delhi is the greenest, with 44.58% (70.89 sq km) of its total area of 159 sqkm area under forest cover, the report said.