Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the previous articles that deal with various topics categorised as biological sciences. These series of articles will help you understand each of the topics under ‘Biodiversity’. Broadly utilitarian argument: It explains that biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem series the nature provides, for which we cannot […]
Hyderabad: What is Biodiversity? When we observe our surroundings, we find different kinds of organisms which vary in size, form, feeding habits, behaviour, etc. For example, there are more than 20,000 species of ants, 3,00,000 species of beetles, 28,000 species of fishes and 20,000 species or orchids. This variation of life at various levels of […]
Quoting from her personal experience of a field trip to an area from Arunachal Pradesh, Zoological Survey of India Director Dhriti Banerjee said, over the last two decades, she has found that over a fifth of the species have been lost.
Hyderabad: The students of grade III and IV of Delhi Public School, Nacharam learnt the definition of biodiversity by watching a video and taking a virtual pledge on October 25. Biodiversity is the diversity or variety among the different species in the living organisms that are present on planet Earth. The students comprehended the meaning […]
Earlier, the officials introduced the species, native to Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, to increase green cover. However, it has eventually affected the soil acidity, thereby preventing other plants from thriving.
The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else - a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) guidelines define de-extinction as the generation of proxies of extinct species that are functionally equivalent to the original extinct species, but are not ‘replicas’.
