Forest at a Glance

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The Department has completed a journey of about 168 years.
Since the formation of the Department in 1856, during the last sixteen decades Forest Department has witnessed many transformations.
Tamil Nadu is located in the southernmost State of the Indian peninsula and is spread over 130,060 sq.km, which constitutes 3.96 % of the area of the country.
The State Tamil Nadu has a spectrum of nine major forest types ranging from wet evergreen forest to moist deciduous, dry deciduous, shola, grass lands and scrub forest
Custodian of 23,188 sq.km. of recorded forest area which is 17.83 % of the Geographical Area (GA) of the State