The vegetation map of India 15 presents precise and reliable assessment of the vegetation types in the country. However, it does not provide the latest estimates of forest cover in these hotspots.

Ratan Kar, M. Firoze Quamar, Late Pleistocene—Holocene vegetation and climate change from the Western and Eastern Himalaya (India), Current Science, Vol. 119, No. 2 (25 July 2020), pp. 195-218 ...

India's Thar desert has seen a 38 per cent rise in vegetation and a significant 64 per cent gain in rainfall over the past two decades, defying a global drift of drylands towards greater aridity under ...