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Protected areas of West Bengal cover 4% of the state area. [1] Forests make up 14% of the geographical area of West Bengal, which is lower than the national average of 33%. [2] [3] West Bengal has a wide variety of fauna, including Bengal tigers, Indian leopards, sloth and Himalayan black bears, chital and sambar (deer), Indian boars, pygmy hogs, Indian elephants, Indian peafowl, great Indian ...
The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 9,630 square kilometers (3,720 sq mi) in the South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas district districts of south-eastern West Bengal, as well as over 100 small and large islands. It extends from Haroa and Hasnabad blocks of North 24 Parganas district in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the ...
Forest cover is the total geographical area declared as forest by the government. As of 2021, the total forest cover in India is 80.9 million hectares, which is 21.71 per cent of the total geographical area. [2] There is a 1,540 sq.km increase in forest cover over 2019. Madhya Pradesh has the highest forest cover by area followed by Arunachal ...
The Sundarbans mangrove forest covers an area of about 10,277 km 2 (3,968 sq mi), of which forests in Bangladesh's Khulna Division extend over 6,017 km 2 (2,323 sq mi) [1] and in West Bengal's Presidency division, they extend over 4,260 km 2 (1,640 sq mi) across the South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas districts.
The Sunderban Tiger Reserve is located in the South 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of West Bengal, and has a total geographical area of 2585 km 2, with 1437.4 km 2 consisting of populated areas and forest covering the remaining 1474 km 2. The Sunderban landscape is contiguous with the mangrove habitat in Bangladesh.
According to the Indian State of Forest Report (2021), the total mangrove cover in India is approximately 4,992 km 2, which constitutes about 0.15% of the country's total geographical area. [11] According to the 2023 report, it decreased to 4,991.68 km square, a decrease of 7.43 sq km in 2 years.
As of 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates India's forest cover to be about 68 million hectares, or 22% of the country's area [4] [5] The 2013 Forest Survey of India states its forest cover increased to 69.8 million hectares by 2012, per satellite measurements; this represents an increase of 5,871 square ...
This department is located at Arayna Bhawan at Salt Lake, Kolkata.It works for forest and wildlife conservation in West Bengal. Naturally, changes have also been made in the department, in consideration of the present day need of the administration to meet the whole gamut of functions of forest and wildlife management, consolidation of participatory forest management in different agro climatic ...