Climate Change and Biodiversity

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Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Diversity in India

• India has a rich and varied heritage of
  biodiversity
• India figured with two of the 34 hotspots - the
  Western Ghats and the Eastern Himalayas
• With a mere 2.4 of the world's area, India
  accounts for 7.31 of the global faunal total
  with a faunal species count of 89,451 species
  (MoEF, 1999)

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Insects
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Butterflies
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Spiders
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Amphibians
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Reptiles
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Reptiles
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Water Birds
Bar-headed Goose
Greater Flamingoes
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Water birds