India State of Forest Report 2019
- The latest India State of Forest Report (ISFR)—which comes biennially since 1989—shows forest cover in India has improved by 3,976 sq km between 2017 and 2019.
- The report is published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) which has been mandated to assess the forest and tree resources of the country including wall-to-wall forest cover mapping in a biennial cycle.
- ISFR 2019 is the 16th report in the series since 1987.
- The report highlights that northeast India continues to lose forests when compared to ISFR 2017 and previous reports.
- The forest report also reveals that the forest area under the category “recorded forest ....
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