Odisha semi-evergreen forests

Orissa semi-evergreen forests
Only small remnants of forest exist in this ecoregion
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Biome	Tropical moist broadleaf forest
Borders	Godavari-Krishna mangroves East Deccan moist deciduous forests Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Bird species	215
Mammal species	59
Geography
Area	8,600 km2 (3,300 sq mi)
Country	India
Coordinates	20°19′N 85°58′E / 20.317°N 85.967°E / 20.317; 85.967
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/Endangered
Protected	12.79%

The Odisha semi-evergreen forests (also Orissa semi-evergreen forests) are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of eastern India. The ecoregion covers an area of 8,600 square kilometers (3,300 sq mi) on the coastal plain of Odisha state, bounded by the Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests west and north-west, transitioning from the huge ecoregion Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests along the north coastland, and surrounding the smaller ecoregion Godavari-Krishna mangroves along a stretch of the south-east coast by the Bay of Bengal.

Several of Odisha's largest cities, including Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Chhatrapur, Kendrapara, and Bhadrak, lie within this ecoregion, and it has been extensively cleared for agriculture and urbanization. According to the WWF, 96% of the ecoregion's area has been cleared, and only 4% remains in the original semi-evergreen rain forest. Much of the remaining forest has been degraded by grazing and fuelwood harvesting.^[1]