Two characteristics of the Tropical Deciduous Forests are:
i. Tropical Deciduous forests shed their leaves for about six to eight months during the dry season.
ii. These forests are less dense. Based on the availability of water, these forests are categorised into moist deciduous forests and dry deciduous forests.

Tropical Evergreen Forests are difficult to exploit because these forests are dense with many plants and climbers tangled to each other in these forests.
Secondly, the lack of transport means to travel deep into these forests has made their
trees difficult to be used commercially.

i. Sandalwood
ii. Sundari
iii. Shisham

Planting of trees on a large scale is known as afforestation. Deforestation refers to the large scale destruction of forests.
Disadvantages of deforestation: Since trees help in moderation of the climate, deforestation results in environmental changes like increase in temperature and reduced precipitation.