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 Km2
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
Kuru Kingdom
Kamyaka contained within
8 along the banks of
Forest it a lake called
the Sarasvati River
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 Yamuna 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
Naimiṣāraṇya
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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