Forest degradation and its affect on tribal life: a statistical view over north east region of India

The traditional symbiotic relationships between tribal community and forest have been revealed from thousands of years. These two are ecologically and economically inseparable and co-existed. India (specifically north eastern region) has a huge population living close to the forest with their livelihood critically linked to the forest ecosystem. People living in their forest fringe villages depend upon forest for a variety of goods and services. This paper tries to analyze statistically the recorded forest area, change of forest cover and the related change matrix over the 8 north east states. It also pin-out the comparative study about the forest and its resources among the north eastern states.