State Profile of Uttarakhand

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    Location of Uttarakhand in India

    Geographic Area and Land Use

    * The reporting area for land utilization in Uttarakhand is 5.99 Mha.
    Source: India State of Forest Report 2017

  • Forest Protection and Landscape Restoration Potential

    Total area available for restoration: 2.25 Mha






    Carbon Sequestration Potential

    Uttarakhand has the potential to sequester between 64.17 to 74.91 million tons (MT) of additional above-ground carbon through the improvement of tree cover. The chart and map represents the potential for increase in above-ground carbon sequestration where maximum tree cover in cultivated areas is capped at 20%.

  • Past and Ongoing Initiatives

    The study on past and on-going initiatives found that Uttarakhand has seven projects that involve at least seven types of interventions.


    These interventions cover 680 hectares and have been implemented by government agencies, the private sector as well as civil society organisations.



    Financial Flows

    Between 2011-16, INR 165,266.9 crore was allocated to Uttarakhand under different programs and schemes, for improvements in forest and tree cover.


    In 2018, Uttarakhand’s share of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund, which was created to compensate the ecosystems services lost as a result of forest land diversion, was INR 3,801.17 crore.

    Tenure and Resource Rights

    No data available for the number of districts in Uttarakhand partially covered under the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act of 1996. Joint Forest Management Committees covering 629,000 households are present in 16% of the state. The potential for recognition of Community Forest Resources Rights (CFRs) under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is 1.15 Mha.

    Risks to Improvement in Forest and Tree Cover

    There are four major risks that can adversely impact improvements in forest and tree cover in Uttarakhand:


    1. • Between 2011-2017, Uttarakhand recorded 3932 incidents of fires.
    2. • Between the years 2000 and 2017, Uttarakhand diverted nearly 50551.621 hectares of forest land. This is nearly 2.08% of Uttarakhand’s total forest area.
    3. • According to the Land Conflict Watch, 6 conflicts between state agencies and communities were reported in Uttarakhand in 2015. These conflicts are related to land acquisition for development (1) and tenure and resource rights (5).
    4. • Biotic pressure including open grazing and the collection of fuelwood.

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