Question

essay writing on forests of India?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The word ‘forest’ is derived from the Latin word ‘fores’ which means ‘outside’. Thus, it must have always referred to a village outskirt, fence or boundary which might have included all cultivated as well as uncultivated land

Answer 2

Answer:

Today, of course, forests refer to vast areas of land covered with thick vegetation, trees and animals dwelling within. Climatic factors such as rainfall and temperature along with soil, determine the kind of natural vegetation that will be found in a particular place. Places that receive more than 200 cm of annual rainfall have evergreen rain forests.

Areas receiving rainfall between 200 and 100 cm have monsoon deciduous trees while drier deciduous or tropical savannah forests are found in areas receiving 50 to 100 cm of rains per annum. Places which receive less than 50 cm annually have only dry thorny vegetation. Owing to the physical diversity of India, a great variety of vegetation is found in different parts of the country. Ranging from tropical wet evergreen, tropical moist deciduous, tropical dry evergreen, sub tropical dry evergreen, broad-leaved or pine, Himalayan dry temperate to sub-Alpine and dry Alpine and other 16 kinds and sub-types of forests are found here.

At the present the total forest and tree cover of the country is 78.92 million hectares which is 24 percent of the geographical area of the country.

Indian forests are also classified on the basis of statutes, ownership, composition and exploitability. The legal or administrative classification is done to protect forests against indiscriminate cutting of trees. The forests in India have been divided into (i) Reserved, (ii) Protected and (iii) Unclassified. The first two categories are permanent forests which are maintained for regular supply of timber and other forest products. They are also maintained to restore the ecological balance. The reserved forests in India cover about 54% of the total forest area of the country while 29% of the total forest area is protected.