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    Theme Biodiversity: Conservation and Agricultural Sustenance

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth and can be categorized into genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential for sustaining life as humans rely on biodiversity for food, medicine, and industry. While an estimated 10 million species exist, only 1.5 million have been identified so far. Maintaining biodiversity and the balance between species and habitats is important for ensuring the survival of humans and other life. Conservation of biodiversity is necessary not only to meet human needs but to protect all life on Earth.

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    Theme Biodiversity: Conservation and Agricultural Sustenance

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth and can be categorized into genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential for sustaining life as humans rely on biodiversity for food, medicine, and industry. While an estimated 10 million species exist, only 1.5 million have been identified so far. Maintaining biodiversity and the balance between species and habitats is important for ensuring the survival of humans and other life. Conservation of biodiversity is necessary not only to meet human needs but to protect all life on Earth.

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth and can be categorized into genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential for sustaining life as humans rely on biodiversity for food, medicine, and industry. While an estimated 10 million species exist, only 1.5 million have been identified so far. Maintaining biodiversity and the balance between species and habitats is important for ensuring the survival of humans and other life. Conservation of biodiversity is necessary not only to meet human needs but to protect all life on Earth.

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    Theme Biodiversity: Conservation and Agricultural Sustenance

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth and can be categorized into genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential for sustaining life as humans rely on biodiversity for food, medicine, and industry. While an estimated 10 million species exist, only 1.5 million have been identified so far. Maintaining biodiversity and the balance between species and habitats is important for ensuring the survival of humans and other life. Conservation of biodiversity is necessary not only to meet human needs but to protect all life on Earth.

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    Theme Biodiversity: Conservation and Agricultural Sustenance

    Biodiversity (or biological diversity) refers to variability of living organisms of terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems. Entire aspect of biodiversity can be grouped in three categories i.e, Genetic Diversity (variations of genes within the organisms of a species), Species Diversity (variation of species within a region) and Ecosystem Diversity (variation in the form of vegetation and other wild life in a broad ecosystem). Human has always been the greatest beneficiary of the biodiversity as it provides food, medicines and industrial products. It is estimated that the total number of species variety of different living forms are around 10 millions. Out of such an enormous number, only 1.5 millions have been identified so far. Such a variety of living organisms is important from the point of view of sustenance of life forms on earth. All these varieties of various life forms have coevolved over the period of time since the origin of life on earth. The variety of different species, their habitats and ecosystem help maintaining a balance of life forms as well as resources on earth. A drastic change in the habitat or ecosystem leads to depletion in the variety of species and also extinction. Thus protection and conservation of biodiversity is not only important from the point of view of fulfillment of our need, rather it is equally or even more important for the very survival of human and other living organisms on the earth. Also, we need to understand the concept of a strong, safe and secure nation. For this, we must not forget the aspects of a healthy, productive and safe environment besides food, education, economy and national security. The exhibits/ models on this sub-theme may pertain to: Exhibits showing the methods of measurement of biodiversity; Models showing the significance and importance of the biodiversity; Strategy for ecological restoration of the micro and macro habitat; Impact of climate change on biodiversity and their remedial measures; Impact Assessment study of various developmental activities on biodiversity; Strategy/ methods for the presentation and protection of threatened / rare/ endangered plants and / or animals; Assessment of the impact of various human activities on the biodiversity of a region; Identification of plants of medicinal value in the biodiversity rich area; Report of already known medicinal plants from a new area; Impact of monoculture in forest during afforestation and reforestation; Studies on the impact of introduction of exotic species in a natural ecosystem; Causes and impact of deforestation due to various river valley projects; Causes and impact on biodiversity rich hilly region due to construction of large dams; Causes and impact of deforestation due to various industrial activities; Inventorisation of biological resources in different regions/ parts of the country; Strategy for sustainable use of genetic resources / germ plasm; Reclamation of wasteland and revival of their biological potential through microorganism conservation; Understanding of the intricate relationships and linkages between plants and

    animal species in an ecosystem; Role of biological sciences including biotechnology in multiplication of the rare, endangered and endemic species; Strategies for in situ conservation of wild life by multiplication and restoration of threatened, rare and endangered species; etc.

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