Plant biodiveresity awareness among school going children
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Plant biodiveresity awareness among school going children
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Lakhan Singh and P. L. Saroj
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Plant biodiversity
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India is known globally for its varying edaplioclimatic conditions and as a mega, biodiversity centre (Mukherjee, 1971). But, satellite imagery reveals that the country is losing on an average 1.3 to 1.5 million hectares of forest every year. The causes of forest vanishing includes cuffing of trees for timber, fuelwood, fodder, uncontroliing grazing, construction of roads and human settlemants acquiring land for cultivation and forest fire. It is well known that forest are genetic storehouse and controllers or the hydrological cycle but the loss of biodiversity has resulted in extinction of several plant and, animal species. The Botanical Survey of India (1980) and Zoological Survey of India (1981) estimated 4500 plant species and 75000 animal species in our country, out of which nearly 1500 plant species were found to be on the verge of extinction, The loss of plant biodiversity, adversely affects the natural phendimena like rainfall, floods, land slide, earthquakes and other natural disasters, soil erosion, desertification, scarcity of timber, fuel, fodder, fibre, food, resin, drug, oil, wax, etc. It is therefore, very essential to create awarenes among the people and to motivate them for conservation of plant biodiversity for survival of mankind (Singh and Aggarwal, 1998). Not Available |
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2017-03-25T05:04:29Z
2017-03-25T05:04:29Z 1999 |
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Research Paper
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English
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