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The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Asia and the Pacific pp 126–140Cite as

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Fifty years ago, India had extensive natural forests with a rich diversity of animal and plant life. Now, the rapid growth in human population and in cattle herds in recent decades has put these forests under more pressure than they can bear. The resource is dwindling and the country as a whole has much less forest cover than is required to maintain environmental stability. The extent of pressures on the forests can be judged from the fact that with less than two per cent of the total forest area of the world, the country supports over 15 per cent of global population and nearly 15 per cent of the cattle. Many of the people and cattle are totally dependent on the forest resources.

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  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK

    N. Mark Collins

  2. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland

    Jeffrey A. Sayer

  3. Geography Department, Cambridge University, UK

    Timothy C. Whitmore

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    N. Mark Collins

  2. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland

    Jeffrey A. Sayer

  3. Geography Department, Cambridge University, UK

    Timothy C. Whitmore

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Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (1991). India. In: Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (eds) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Asia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12030-7_18

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