The document defines forest and forest cover. It discusses the various forest types found in North-East India, including tropical evergreen, moist deciduous, sal, pine and temperate forests. It also provides a table showing the total area, forest cover area and percentage of forest cover for each of the eight states in North-East India, with Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Meghalaya having the highest percentages of over 75%.

1. Forest types and Forest Cover of
North-East India

2. Content
• Definition of Forest
• What is Forest Cover?
• Forest types of North-East India
• Forest cover of N.E In

3. Definition
• Forest is a minimum area of land of 0.5-1.0 hectares with tree
crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10-30
percent with the potential to reach the minimum height of 2-5
meter at maturity in situ (UNFCCC, 2001).
• Forest use natural forest and forest plantations. It is used to
refer to land with a tree canopy cover more than 10 percent and
the area should be more than 0.5 hectares. Forests are
determined by both presence of trees and absence of other
predominant land uses. The trees should be able to reach a
minimum height of 5 meter. Young stands that have not yet but
are expected to reach a crown density of 10 percent and tree
height of 5 m are included under forest, as are temporarily
unstocked areas (FAO, 2000a).

4. What is Forest Cover?
• Forest Cover refers to all lands more than
one hectare in area, with a tree canopy
density of more than 10 percent irrespective
of ownership and legal status. Such lands
may not necessarily be a recorded forest
area. It also includes orchards, bamboo and
palm.

5. Forest types of N.E. India
Sl. No Vegetation type States
1 Tropical Evergreen Forest Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,Mizoram,
Tripura
2 Hollong Forest
(Dipterocarpus)
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
3 TropicalSemi-evergreen
Forest
Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Meghalaya,Mizoram
4 MoistDeciduous Forest Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Meghalaya,Tripura
5 Reverain Forest Arunachal Pradesh
6 Hollock (Terminalia Sp.) Arunachal Pradesh
7 Sal (Soria robusta) Forest Sikkim, Assam,Meghalaya,Tripura
8 Teak(Tectonagrandis)
Plantation
Assam
9 Dry deciduous Forest Manipur
10 Sub-tropical evergreen I Arunachal,Meghalaya
11 Sub-tropical evergreen II Arunachal
12 Sub-tropical broad leaved
Forest
Mizoram
13 Broad leaved Hill Forest Sikkim
14 Mixed Pine Forest Meghalaya
15 Pine Forest Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Meghalaya
16 Temperate broad leaved Arunachal
17 Mixed temperate forest Nagaland
18 Wet temperate forest Mizoram
19 Temperate coniferous forest Arunachal Pradesh
20 Fir Forest Arunachal Pradesh
21 Sub-alpine and
Rhododendron
Sikkim,Arunachal Pradesh

6. Forest cover of N.E. India
Serial
No.
State Total Area (Sq.
km.)
Forest Cover (Sq.
Km.)
Percent
(%)
1 Arunachal
Pradesh
83,743 66,688 79.63
2 Assam 78,438 28,327 36.11
3 Manipur 22,327 16,847 75.46
4 Meghalaya 22,429 17,119 76.33
5 Mizoram 21,081 18,006 85.41
6 Nagaland 16,579 12,486 75.31
7 Sikkim 7,096 3,342 47.10
8 Tripura 10,492 7,726 73.64
Total 262,185 170,541 65.05