EM101_1: Introduction

Introduction

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Lesson 14:Biodiversity and its conservation

Biological diversity is an index of a nation’s wealth. It is the basis of human survival and economic well being. The variety of organisms conveys the simplest idea of biodiversity. The sources of plants giving, food, clothing, shelter, medicines; the animals as sources of food, help, wild life and human resource efficiencies along with variation pattern in the microbial world represent biodiversity.

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