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BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION. The olive ridley turtles at Orissa coast. www.thehindubusinessline.com . The irony of their fate. www.greenpeace.org. Biosphere- Complex system Many spps. Interlinking in form of a web. Keeping the whole system stable. Conservation-

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BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

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  1. BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

  2. The olive ridley turtles at Orissa coast www.thehindubusinessline.com

  3. The irony of their fate www.greenpeace.org

  4. Biosphere- Complex system Many spps. Interlinking in form of a web. Keeping the whole system stable. Conservation- development of ways & strategies of protecting the diversity that exists in the biosphere.

  5. Why to conserve? • Bio-geo chemical cycles. N, P , S, C etc cycles. • The gene pool of characters of environmental and human interest. • Food webs and chains providing natural pest and disease control. • And many other reasons.

  6. Flora • 10.9% of world flora • 45364 plant spps.

  7. Fauna • 7.7% of the world’s • About 94317 animal species

  8. Bio diversity in agriculture Source-www.teriin.org

  9. In-situ Involves protection of natural areas with high biodiversity. Ex-situ here we conserve biodiversity in an artificial setting. Conservation approaches www.indiantiger.org www.plantlife.org

  10. Table: Threatened Animals of India by Status Category LegendEx-extinct; EW-Extinct in the Wild; CR- Critically Endangered; VU-Vulnerable; LR/cd-Lower Risk conservation dependent; LR/nT- Lower Risk near threatened; DD-Data Deficient

  11. Table: Threatened Plants of India by Status Category LegendEx-extinct; EW-Extinct in the Wild CR- Critically Endangered VU-Vulnerable LR/cd-Lower Risk conservation dependent LR/nT- Lower Risk near threatened DD-Data Deficient Source: IUCN. 2000

  12. Insitu conservation • National parks (88), and sanctuaries (490) • Expansion of the protected area network • Population surveys and assessments and database creation • Mapping of forest types, protected areas, and natural forests • Improved protection efforts and a landscape approach to • conservation • Regular population-habitat viability and risk simulations • Geographical information systems and remote sensing in planning • and monitoring • Creation of new conservation • reserves • Community reserves • Joint Forest management • Voluntary, field based organizations and NGOs (non-governmental • organizations)

  13. The national parks and sanctuaries

  14. Mapping the forests The two satellites were used for stratification of trees in and outside forest

  15. Geographical information systems and remote sensing in planning and monitoring The vegetation map of india

  16. Community conservation

  17. Community reserves magma.nationalgeographic.com

  18. Community reserves

  19. Joint forest management Kuvarai village Andhra Pradesh www.fao.org

  20. Ex-situ conservation • Captive breeding and species reintroduction • NBAGR • NBPGR • Biotechnology • Seed banks • Bioinformatics

  21. Bioinformatics • The terms bioinformatics and computational biology are often used interchangeably Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics ,computer science and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Eg. genome sequencing .

  22. Bioinformatics

  23. Bioinformatics

  24. Seed banks

  25. Dudhwa- Lakhimpur-Kheri magma.nationalgeographic.com

  26. Project tiger magma.nationalgeographic.com

  27. International efforts • United nations environment programme • World conservation union • WWF • Convention on international trade in endangered animals and plant species

  28. Indian efforts • The biodiversity bill 2002 • India became party to convention on biodiversity (CBD) • May 22nd international day on biodiversity celebrated.

  29. Thanks.. • Prashant Sharma • Vibhas Chandra • Abhishak Lahiri • Nishi Kalpana Pandey

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