Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface or about 4 billion hectares. Today, we’ll look at the 10th largest country in terms of forest area: India.
The forest cover in India is around 720.000 square kilometers which is 24% of the country’s area and around 2% of the world’s total forest area as illustrated below.
India is one of the most diverse regions in the world.
It has broadly five categories of forests:
a) tropical evergreen forests
b) tropical deciduous forests
c)tropical thorn forests
d) montane forests
e)swamp forests
Each of these forests has a different ecosystem that sustains a variety of small and large animals along with a large number of endemic medicinal plants.
Gecko:
Elephant in the rainforest of Western Ghats, India:
Lobelia nicotianifolia, a medicinal plant in India:
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