List of Important Forest In India

S.No Name Location Area Notes This is a hilly forest covering Narayanpur district, Bijapur district, and Dantewada Abujmarh district. It is 1 Chhattisgarh 3900 Km 2 forest home to indigenous tribes of India, including Gond, Muria, Abuj Maria, and Halbaas. Turtle Annekal 2 Reserved Western Ghats Forest Baikunthapur Dooars, West This is a terai 3 Forest Bengal forest Bhavnagar Amreli Forest is a reserved area for conservation Gir National Park, Bhavnagar of Asiatic lions. 4 Amreli district, Amreli Forest The new Gujarat location is east side of Gir National Park in Amreli district

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of Gujarat. After inclusion of New Jesal sanctuary the area of this forest will go to 1600 km2 which is bigger than Gir sanctuary In 1975, an area of 672 km2 was declared the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary. The core area of the sanctuary, with an area of 145 km2, was declared Bhitarkanika Bhitarkanika 5 Odisha 650 km² Mangroves National Park in September 1998. The Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary, which bounds the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary to the east, was created in September

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1997 It contained within it a lake called the Dwaita lake, abounding with South of the flowers, and 6 Dvaita Forest Kamyaka Forest delightful to look at, and inhabited by many species of birds, elephants and many trees This forest is in the foothills of Jakanari mountain of Nilgris. This reserve forest is Jakanari 7 Coimbatore recently reserve forest becoming polluted because of human activities of nearby Mettupalayam. No longer exists.It Kamyaka contained within 8 along the banks of Forest it a lake called the the Kamyaka lake (2,51).

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Kukrail Lucknow, Uttar 9 Reserve Pradesh Forest No longer exists.According to the Northern India, Ramayana, an 10 Madhu Forest west of Asura named Madhu, ruled this forest and its territory. Molai forest is named after Padma Shri Jorhat district, Jadav “Molai” 11 Molai forest 1,360 acres Assam Payeng, Indian environmental activist and forestry worker. 12 Mulai Kathoni Brahmaputra River 550 hectares No longer exists.Naimisha Gomati River, Forest or between the Naimi ṣā ra ṇya Naimisha Panchala Kingdom 13 was an ancient Forest and Kosala forest mentioned Kingdom, Uttar in the Pradesh Mahabharata and the puranas Eastern Ghats, 90 mi (140 The average Nallamala 14 Andhra Pradesh km) elevation today Hills (South of River north-south is about 520

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Krishna) [1] m.There are also many other peaks above 800 m. The state forest department has entrusted the 320 work of data Nanmangalam hectares(total collection in this 15 Reserve Chennai,Tamilnadu area 2,400 small forest area Forest hectares) to Care Earth, a bio-diversity research organisation The Indian Bird Conservation Network New (IBCN) has 265.72 Amarambalam identified 212 16 the Western Ghats, square Reserved species of birds kilometres Forest from the Nilambur and Amarambalam forests World’s second Pichavaram Cuddalore District, 1,100 biggest 17 Mangrove Tamil Nadu hectares mangrove Forest forest. Sal (Shorea West Singhbhum robusta) is the 18 Saranda forest 820 km² district, Jharkhand most important tree in the area.

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In 1976, a portion of the reserve forest covering 1,265 acres (512 ha) Vandalur was demarcated 19 Reserve Chennai,Tamilnadu 1,490 acres by the Tamil Forest Nadu Forest Department as the new location for the Madras Zoo,

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