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Essay on biodiversity in forest areas for class 8. Pls, answer as an essay or as a paragraph.

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India has a great wealth of biodiversity in its forests, wetlands and marine areas. It has wide range of habitats ranging from tropical rainforest to alpine vegetation and from temperate forests to coastal wetlands. India consists of fertile river plains and high plateaus and several

major rivers including the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus. India shows a great diversity in climate, topography and geology hence very rich in biodiversity. The Ministry of Environment and Forests Govt. of India (2000) records 47,000 species of plants and 81000 species of animals.

This is about 7% and 6.5% respectively of global flora and fauna. About 5000 species of flowering plants have their origin in India. India is said to be the centre of origin of 160 species of crop plants and 320 species of wild relatives of cultivated crops. India has 372

different mammals (rated eighth highest in world), 1228 species of birds (eighth in world), 428 species of reptiles (fifth in world). India has more than 50,000 species of insects including 13000 butterflies and moths.

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