Question

From the point of view of natural vegetation and wildlife, India belongs to which of the following categories?

(a) One of the twelve mega biodiversity countries of the world

(b) The richest wildlife zone in the world

(c) The country with the greatest forest cover

(d) A country lacking in biodiversity cover​

Answer 1

option a is the correct answer

One of the 12 mega biodiversity countries of the world

Answer 2

From the point of view of natural vegetation and wildlife, India belongs to (a) One of the twelve mega biodiversity countries of the world

Mega biodiverse countries:

• The biodiversity of our beautiful planet Earth is reducing day by day from the loss of natural species.
• Human activities leading to global warming are the main cause for this gradual loss of many species belonging both to flora and fauna.
• This species loss is a potential danger to various natural ecosystems in the world.
• Mega biodiverse countries with the highest indices for abundant and diverse ecosystems.  They can house for about seventy percent of the Earth's terrestrial biodiversity.
• The World Conservation Monitoring System of the United Nations Environment Program has identified 12 countries namely, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, China, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and South Africa as mega-diverse countries.
• The main aim is for sustainable conservation of their ecological biodiversity.