India has about 8 percent of the world’s biodiversity on 2 percent of the earth’s surface, making it one of the 12 mega-diversity countries in the world. Of about 1.75 million species globally identified, around 1,26,188 species have been reported so far from India. The species recorded include flowering plants (angiosperms), mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians, constituting about 17.3 percent of the total, whereas fungi and insects make up nearly 60 percent of India’s bio-wealth. This diversity can be attributed to the great variety of natural ecosystems due to the varied physical and climatic features found in India.
India ranks tenth in the world both in respect of richness of flowering plants (17,500 spp.) and mammals (350 spp.) and fourth in Asia in plant diversity. India is also a centre of crop diversity, a homeland of as many as 167 species of crops and 320 species of wild crop relatives.
The country has 10 different bio geographic zones and 26 biotic provinces gifted with unique and rare species of flora and fauna
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Title for the passage will be- "India And Its BIODIVERSITY"
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