BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS IN INDIA
Currently 4 Biodiversity hotspots have been recognized in India sharing borders with other neighbouring countries.
Criteria for being called a Hotspot -
- 1500 Vascular plants should be endemic to the area
- must have 30% of its original natural vegetation/threatened
- Himalayas: Includes the entire Indian Himalayan region (and that falling in Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar)
- Indo-Burma: Includes entire North-eastern India, except Assam and Andaman group of Islands (and Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and southern China)
- Sundalands: Includes Nicobar group of Islands (and Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines)
- Western Ghats and Sri Lanka: Includes entire Western Ghats (and Sri Lanka)
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