Forest cover of the country as per the present assesement is 67.71million hactare,which is 20.60% of its total geographical area.out of this,5.46m ha(1.66%)is very dense forest,33.26 million ha is moderately dense and rest 28.99m hais open including 0.44m ha mangroves.However excluding the area (18.16m ha.)not available for tree planting/afforestationdue to climate/rocks etc.,the forest cover of the country comes to 21.81%..
Approximately 20%
Which is the area of in india which consider as maximum forest area and minimum forest area in india?
I believe that the state of Himachal Pradesh has the maximum area under forest cover. The minimum area under forest cover is in the state of Punjab. I am really not sure what is meant by the "moderate forest area".
Chattishgarh is the state covered by Forest( most of its area is covered with forest)
There are 79.42 million hectares of forests in India.
22.70 percent is under forest
Haryana
rajasthan
22.47
punjab
forest in India since 1980 and the trends are:
Not really. The total coastal wetland in India is 27.12% of the total wetland area in India.