India State of Forest Report (ISFR)
Part of: GS-I- Geography and Forest (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST)
State of Forest Report (SFR 2017)
SFR is a biennial report published by Forest Survey of India (FSI), which is under the Ministry of Environment.
The latest report states that, India posted a marginal 0.21% rise in the area under forest between 2015 and 2017.
The document says that India has about 7, 08,273 square km of forest, which is 21.53% of the geographic