The India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2017, released by the Forest Survey of India , shows that there has been a net increase of 37 sq. km of mangrove cover across Andhra Pradesh since 2015.
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The increase between 2013-15 was 17 sq.km.
The highest net increase of 18 sq. km has been recorded in Guntur district and in the case of Krishna, it is 11 sq.km.
West Godavari district witnessed a negative growth (-1) between 2015 and 2017.
The figure was arrived at with the help of satellite imagery.
State Chief Wildlife Warden said that, protection measures being taken in the sanctuaries, afforestation taken up in the past few years are the very immediate reasons for the increase in mangrove cover. Those planted a few years ago could only be traced in the satellite imagery.
Regeneration
The ISFR has concluded that ‘plantation and regeneration’ were the prime reasons for the increase in mangrove cover in the State, which has 404 sq.km of total over, including 213 sq. km of moderate dense forest.
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