District-wise Forest Cover -West Bengal

  Number of districts : 18                                                                                                                                   Back

District Geographic Area   2005 Assessment Percent of G.A. Change Scrub
Very dense forest Mod. dense forest Open forest Total
BankuraT 6,882 100 315 612 1,027 14.92 2 13
BardhmanT 7,024 16 80 143 239 3.40 2 4
BirbhumT 4,545 0 18 50 68 1.50 2 7
Kolkata 185 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0
Coochbehar 3,387 0 25 62 87 2.57 0 1
Dakshin DinapurT 2,219 0 2 13 15 0.68 0 0
DarjeelingTH 3,149 472 893 856 2,221 70.53 0 0
Howrah 1,467 0 5 75 80 5.45 0 0
Hoogli 3,149 0 2 67 69 2.19 0 0
JalpaiguriT 6,227 607 573 1,233 2,413 38.75 14 13
MaldaT 3,733 0 59 58 117 3.13 0 0
MedinipurT 14,081 186 571 1,798 2,555 18.15 -1 3
MurshidabadT 5,324 0 25 60 85 1.60 0 0
Nadia 3,927 1 24 70 95 2.42 0 0
North 24 Pargana 4,094 16 34 72 122 2.98 0 0
PuruliaT 6,259 34 239 499 772 12.33 5 27
South 24 ParganaT 9,960 870 908 505 2,283 22.92 0 0
Uttar Dinajpur 3,140 0 4 161 165 5.25 0 0
Total 88,752 2,302 3,777 6,334 12,413 13.99 24 68

  Source   :   Forest Survey of India, Dehradun. State of forest report 2005. Dehradun, FSI, 2008. p.145.