How does the atlas define areas for protection, wide-scale and mosaic restoration?
• Protection areas have forest cover with a density of more than 40 percent. These forests can be maintained through protection from risks such as fire, land diversion, and fragmentation.
• Areas for wide-scale restoration are those where near-contiguous tracts of forest and tree cover can be established. The existing forest and tree cover in these areas is less than 40 percent and this area has a population density of less than 200 persons per sq.km. It also includes all plantations irrespective of tree cover density.
• Mosaic restoration is the integration of trees in a patchwork of different land uses including rainfed cultivated areas. Mosaic restoration includes agroforestry interventions, such as trees on boundaries, agri-horti-forestry, and farm forestry. Mosaic restoration areas have a tree cover density of less than 40 percent and a population density of less than 400 persons per sq.km.