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Notice: Undefined variable: state in /home/rainforestw.org/public_html/Rainforest_Regions/Asia/India/index.php on line 66 Less than a century ago, 40 percent of India was forested. Large tracts of deciduous and tropical rainforest were destroyed over the last century as the British expanded India?s railway network across the country. Crops and plantations have taken over much of the rest. Today, just 8 percent of India is covered in intact dense forest, ranging from the world?s most extensive mangrove forests, the Sunderbans in West Bengal, to evergreen rainforest in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and dry alpine forests in the Himalayan foothills. [more] India Links:
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