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India State of Forest Report (ISFR)
October 1 , 2024
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- The India State of Forest Report (ISFR), due for release in 2023, has been delayed by over a year.
- The report, which is released every two years, is produced by the Forest Survey of India (FSI).
- It has been published since 1991 and provides a comprehensive overview of the state of India’s forests.
- This delay marks the second occasion when the government has missed the report’s publication deadline — the last instance occurred in 2007.
- The last report, published in 2021, recorded the country’s total forest cover at 713,789 square kilometres or 21.71 per cent.
- It was a marginal increase of 1,540 square kilometres compared to the 2019 ISFR publication.
- From 2013 to 2023, 95 per cent of deforestation occurred in natural forests.3
- As per MoEFCC, India had lost 173,396 hectares (1,733 square kilometres) of forest for development works.
- It also claimed that compensatory afforestation had recovered 21,761 square kilometres of forest area between 2013 and 2023.
- In Odisha, the unclassified forests increased from 17 square kilometres to 16,282 square kilometres between 1999 and 2015.
- But it was dropped to 22 square kilometres in the 2017 report.
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