What are sacred groves? What is their role in conservation?
Solution and Explanation
Sacred groves are tracts of forest which are regenerated around places of worship. Sacred groves are found in Rajasthan Western Ghats of Karnataka and Maharashtra Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh. Sacred groves help in the protection of many rare threatened and endemic species of plants and animals found in an area. The process of deforestation is strictly prohibited in this region by tribals. Hence the sacred grove biodiversity is a rich area.
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Biodiversity and Conservation
The term ‘biodiversity’ is derived from the two words- ‘bios' which means life and ‘diversity’ i.e, differentiation or variation. Edward Wilson, the sociobiologist was the first to popularise the term ‘biodiversity’ in the year 1992. The term implies the occurrence of various plants and animals along with their variants such as biotypes, ecotypes and genes on earth. In our biosphere, the immense diversity or heterogeneity remains not only at the species level but also, at every level of biological organization that ranges from macromolecules in the cells to biomes.
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