Paper I · 4 Environment & Disaster Management · 4.3 Biodiversity and species

4.3.2 Biodiversity hotspots: world and India

A biodiversity hotspot is a region very rich in endemic plants that has already lost most of its natural habitat; there are 36 in the world and India shares four.

  • TGPSC MPSO / ASO · Paper I
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Key terms

  • hotspot
  • Norman Myers
  • Conservation International
  • endemism
  • Himalaya
  • Indo-Burma
  • Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
  • Sundaland
  • hope spots

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