Biodiversity Conservation for Sustainable Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Biodiversity and its conservation/R. Ramanujam and R. Seenivasan. 2. Biodiversity loss: causes and consequences/R. Ganesan, S. Venkatesan and K. Muthuchelian. 3. Indian biodiversity: proud to say but pathetic to see/V. Kumar and S. Vinoth Kumar. 4. Approaches and strategy for biodiversity conservation/J. Pushpa. 5. Biodiversity measurement approaches and challenges/P. Selvam, D. Mitursan and R. Kannan. 6. Biosphere reserves: concept design and functions in protection and maintenance of biodiversity in India/A.G. Pandurangan. 7. Role of corporates in conservation of biodiversity/B. Anbazhagan, K.P. Ganesan and S.S. Vignesh. 8. Conservation of medicinal and aromatic plant resources in Chhattisgarh/V.K. Choudhary. 9. Social forestry: a tool for carbon sequestration sustainable development and conserving biodiversity/Jayesh Pathak. 10. Role of nurseries in stable source of income for rural people and biodiversity conservation/E. Mohan and K. Rajendran....

India being one of the 17 megadiversity nation in the world. India possesses a diversity of ecological habitats ranging from tropical sub-tropical alpine to desert. In India, the Western Ghat and the Eastern Himalayan forests have been identified as the megadiversity hot spots. In fact within the 2.4% of the world\'s total land area, India is known to have 11% and 7.5% of the flora and fauna respectively. Biodiversity creates a systematic frame work for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions. The year of 2010 is considered as the International Year of Biodiversity which includes a series of programme to protect the biodiversity. The convention on Biodiversity CBD will provide India an opportunity to consolidate, scale-up and demonstrate our initiatives and strengths on biodiversity.