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INDIA’S DIVERSE FORESTS DID YOU KNOW?

The state of Madhya Pradesh has
Forests in India vary with changes in temperature and rainfall. Latitude, the largest forest cover in India
altitude and presence of water bodies result in diversity of our forest habitats. of around 6,90,899 km.
Sushmit Deb, VI, Delhi Public School,
3 7 Sec 45, Gurgaon
tropical Dry Deciduous Northern Montane Forests
Forests These are found in the himalayan region. here 8
The dry deciduous are found in areas height and change in temperature gradually Mangrove Forests
receiving rainfall between 70-100cm. changes the forest’s character.
They are found throughout the gangetic • 1000-1500m: Oak and Chestnut These forests are found in tidal areas with
plains, andhra Pradesh, gujarat, Karnataka, • 1500-2000 m: Pine and Deodar high salinity. They can be found in deltas
Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The • 2000-3000 m: Blue Pine and Spruce of the ganga, brahmaputra, Mahanadi,
canopy of the trees does not normally • 3000-4000m: Silver Fir and Juniper godavari, Krishna and Cauvery. The densest
exceed 25 metres and in summer they Some trees: Spruce, Hemlock, Pine, fir and most continuous mangrove forests
appear as grasslands. S. Pramodhini, VII, Angappa Senior Secondary CBSE are found in the sunderbans of the ganga-
School, Coimbatore brahmaputra delta.
Some trees: Sal, Tendu, Bael, Palash
Some trees: Sundari, garan, gewa, Hetal,
Keya
4 7 S. Sivaranjani, VII, Sri Sankara Senior Secondary
tropical thorn Forests and Scrub School, Chennai; S. Jasmina Banu, Little Scholars
Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
scrub and thorn vegetation are found in areas Thanjavur
receiving rainfall below 70 cm. They cover
extremely arid regions of western rajasthan, 3 1
Kutch and Kathiawar areas of gujarat and the tropical Evergreen Forests
rain-shadow areas of the southern plateau. 4 3 2 1
Vegetation is essentially ‘xerophytic’ in nature. evergreen forests are usually found in areas receiving
Some trees: date Palm, Cactus, Babul more than 200 cm rainfall. They are dense forests
8 with tall evergreen trees. in india, evergreen forests
2 are found on the western slopes of the western
5 ghats, North-eastern india and the andaman and
tropical thorn Scrub 2 Nicobar islands.

The Deccan thorn scrub forests in india are located in Some trees: rosewood, Mahogany, Ebony
the arid parts of the Deccan Plateau with rainfall below 1 5 Stuthi K, IX, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School,
70 cm. The region is spread across the states of andhra 6 Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and Ishita Saraf, VII-F, Delhi
Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Public School, Raipur
Some trees: Varieties of acacia (most dominant)
M. Mohamed Arshad, VIII, Vidyaa Vikas Matric Higher 2
Secondary School, Pudukkottai tropical Moist Deciduous Forests
The moist deciduous forests are found in areas
6 receiving rainfall between 100–200 cm and most

Southern Montane Forests commonly found on the eastern slopes of the western
ghats, Chota Nagpur Plateau and eastern Madhya
These are found in southern india including Pradesh. as temperature rises in summer, the trees
Nilgiris and western ghats. shed their leaves.
There are two types of vegetation: temperate Some trees: Teak, Sal, Sheesham, Sandalwood,
(higher region) and sub-tropical (lower region). Mahua, Kusum
The forests of Nilgiris, annamalai and Palni hills Gatik Chanana ,V C, Veda Vyasa D.A.V Public School, New
are known as Sholas. Delhi
I’m a
Deciduous Illustration by: Some trees - Magnolia, laurel, Cinchona,
tree. Can you Devanshi Raja, Wattle activity: SPEaKiNG tREES
tell why? X-D, Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan’s
Public School, Background Illustration by: C. Sriram Kalyan, X, BVBP write a dialogue between the trees of any
Jubilee Hills, School, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad; Swati Yadav, X, Suditi two of the above mentioned forests.
Hyderabad Global Academy, Etawah

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