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What are the data layers available in the Atlas?
1. Landscape restoration opportunities:
This includes two layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Potential landscape restoration opportunities for protection, wide-scale restoration and mosaic restoration.
- b. Potential state-wise restoration opportunities.
2. Potential for increase in forest and tree-cover:
This includes two layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Potential for increase in forest and tree cover through protection, wide-scale and mosaic restoration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 20 percent.
- b. Potential for increase in forest and tree cover through protection, wide-scale and mosaic restoration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 40 percent.
3. Potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration:
This includes three layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration through protection, wide-scale and mosaic restoration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 20 percent.
- b. Potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration through protection, wide-scale and mosaic restoration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 40 percent.
- c. State-wise potential for increasing carbon sequestration.
4. Past and on-going initiatives:
This includes two layers which can be toggled on and off:
- a. Restoration Interventions.
- b. Actors involved in implementation of restoration projects.
5. Risk Factors for Restoration:
This includes four layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Overview of potential risk in the states.
- b. Average incidents of forest fires per hectare.
- c. Forest land diversion.
- d. Land conflicts.
6. Tenure and Resource Rights:
This includes four layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Percentage of recorded forest area under joint forest management (JFM).
- b. Potential for community forest resource rights (CFR).
- c. Potential for recognition of CFRs.
- d. Fifth and Sixth Schedule areas.
7. Finance for Forest Protection and Tree-Based Restoration:
This includes three layers which can be toggled on and off:- a. Allocation of public finance to states excluding Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
- b. Allocation under MGNREGS.
- c. State’s share under Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF).
* Users are advised to keep only one of the layers switched on at a time for an accurate view.