News Headline
A Quest To Save The Kaveri Catchment’s Biodiversity
Source
Youth kiawaaz
Publication Date
2017-12-21
As our population increases every day, our natural resources are falling short. There is an insatiable need to accommodate more and more people at the known risk of endangering our planet even more. Take the western ghats, one of eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to ‘The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel’ report, about 40% of original vegetation cover in the western ghats has been lost and converted between 1920-1990.