India, such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Jharkhand, were vulnerable to illegal logging by timber mafias that have coopted or intimidated forestry officials, local politicians, businesses and citizenry. Despite these local criminal and corruption issues, satellite data analysis and a 2010 FAO report finds India has added over 4 million hectares of forest cover, a 7% increase, between 1990 and 2010. Forest rights In 1969, forestry in India underwent a major change with the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a new legislation that sought to address the needs of forest dwelling communities that resulted from the failure to record their rights over forest land and resources. It also sought to bring in new forms of community conservation. Forest laws in India Indian Forest Act, 1927 Forest Conservation Act, 1980 Environment Protection Act, 1986 Biological Diversity Act, 2002 The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 Gallery See also Forests in India related Bodhi Tree Communal forests of India List of banyan trees in India Protected areas of India Reserved forests and protected forests of India Sacred groves of India Social forestry in India Wildlife of India Forestry entities in India Arid Forest Research Institute Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Indian Forest Service List of forest research institutes in India List of forestry technical schools in India List of forestry universities and colleges in India Van Vigyan Kendra, Forest Science Centres References forest Further reading Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development (Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2022) online review[ External links Forestry Research Institute, India