Mangaluru: While there has been a net increase of 17 square kilometers on the country’s mangrove cover compared to the 2019 assessment report on the Indian Forest Survey (FSI), Karnataka stands third in the country after Odisha and Maharashtra in profit.
While Odisha rose 8 square kilometers and Maharashtra (4 square kilometers), Karnataka’s advantage was 2.57 square kilometers.
Mangrove Karnataka in three coastal districts contributed 12.61 square kilometers and represented 0.26% of state mangroves.
West Bengal has the highest accounting for 42.33% in 2,114 square kilometers and Gujarat at 23.94% has mangroves 1175 square kilometers.
The third in the list is Andaman and the Accounting Nicobar Islands 12.34% covering 616 square kilometers.
What is important for Karnataka is that, despite the low percentage of mangrove cover, a high regeneration percentage.
Indian forest surveys assess the mapping of state forest cover in the two-year cycle using satellite data.
The main objective is the presentation of information about state forest resources at the state and district levels.
Of the 12.61 square kilometers, the biggest tract was at Uttara Kannada at 10.47 km square, followed by Udupi at 1.69 Km Square and Dakshina Kannada at 0.45 sq km.
Interestingly, Udupi has the largest channel of mangrove which is quite dense in 1.54 square kilometers and Uttara Kannada has an open 10.19 square mangrove, the highest among the three districts.
Dakshina Kannada has 0.09 sq km from a very dense mangrove forest and two other districts do not have it.
The current assessment by FSI shows the mangrove cover in this country is 4,992 square kilometers, namely 0.15% of the total geographical area of the country.
Very dense mangroves consist of 1,475 square kilometers (29.55%); The solid mangrove is 1,481 square kilometers (29.67%) while opening mangrove is an area of 2,036 square kilometers (40.78%).
There has been a net increase of 17 km in the country’s mangrove cover compared to the 2019 assessment Kannada (0.45 square kilometers) 0.15 square kilometers.
Among the southern countries, Goa has the highest mangrove cover at 27.34 square kilometers but regeneration in two years is 1.34 square kilometers.
Kerala has the least mangrove cover at 9.36 square kilometers and a two-year assessment change is 0.46 square kilometers.
The situation of forest reports has linked an increase in mangroves, especially because of natural regeneration.
Mangrove is an important idler of biodiversity beaches and acts as a bio-shield on extreme climate events.
The large population, especially rustic, depends on the mangrove ecosystem for various livelihoods that depend on biomass.
Mangrove cover increased by 2.6sqkm in Karnataka
