Question

India is one of the seventeen megadiversity centres of the world. It has three of 34 hotspots of biodiversity. What do you understand by the two terms. State the values attached to them?

Answer 1

Megadiversity centers are areas or countries which have a very high density of biodiversity. Their area is small as compared to biodiversity. The seventeen megadiversity centers of the world cover only $10\%$ of the land surface but contain $70\%$ of total biodiversity. India with $2.4\%$ of land area supports $8.1\%$ of biodiversity.
Hotspots of biodiversity are areas of high biodiversity which are rich in endemic species but are threatened due to human encroachments. India has three hotspots- Western ghats, Indo-Burma and Himalaya.
Biodiversity found in India and the endemism of hot spot are nature's gift to the country. It should be protected and saved from destruction by human greed.