Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography
Open Access

Review Article

Managing Biodiversity with Emphasis on Sustainable Development

Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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Pranab Pal D
Wildlife Institute of India
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
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Received date: March 21, 2016; Accepted date: March 29, 2016; Published date: March 31, 2016

Citation: Pranab Pal D (2016) Managing Biodiversity with Emphasis on Sustainable Development. J Ecosys Ecograph S5:008. doi:10.4172/2157-7625.S5-008

Copyright: © 2016 Pal DP. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The biodiversity, which makes our lives both pleasurable and probable. No one knows precisely how many species arise on our world. According to specialist the total number of species on earth is in between 10 million to 80 million. We have been capable to procure only 1.4 million species so far. India has a flora of its possess and concerning 15000 species are widespread in this region. However biodiversity loss is continuing as a serious worry in many countries including India. Human population increase, indefensible consumerism, augmenting liberate of waste and pollutants, urbanization, international conflicts and unfairness in giving out of wealth and resources are presently being viewed in totality to ameliorate environmental problems as well as to make sure the potential of life on earth. Biodiversity is an umbrella expression acceptance numbers, assortment and variability of living organisms, the sum total of genetic materials within the organisms and the ecosystems in which they take place. Asia was the most horrible influence in terms of casualties owing to natural disasters - 65% of those killed in 2012 were Asians. Study conducted by specialist that 70% of worldwide genetic diversity of crop plants has already been gone during the last century owing to preface of elevated yielding and hybrid varieties of crops. Pollution has risen in numerous developing countries including India with elevated economic growth, as superiority of environment is ignored in favor of economic achievement. According to Global Ecology and Biogeography that global warming will make quite a lot of species of lizard go away extinct within the next 50 years. In India biodiversity is critical not only because it provides rather a few goods as well as services indispensable for human endurance, other than as well for the reason that it is unswervingly associated by means of as long as livelihoods on the way to along with improving socio-economic conditions of millions of our populace, consequently contributing to sustainable development in adding together to scarcity alleviation.

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