ASSIGNMENT
NO -1
❑ NAME OF THE ASSIGNMENT- CASE
STUDY REPORT
❑ NAME OF THE TOPIC – HOTS POTS
OF BIODIVERSITY IN INDIA
❑ NAME – JOY SWEETY A
❑ DEPARTMENT – CSE A
❑ DATE OF SUBMISSI0N –
04.11.2024
Endemic species
TOPICS Hotspots of biodiversity in India
INCLUDED Eastern Himalayas
Western ghats
Examples for endemic species
ENDEMIC SPECIES
Plants,
animals or found in
diseases – geographic
changing
habitats region
Island,
mountain
range or
lake
poaching Contribute
to
environmen
t
biodiversity
Vulnerable
species –
climate greatest
change risk of
Natural extinction
human causes
activity
HOTSPOTS
▪ Hotspots are areas characterized with high concentration of endemic species
experiencing unusual rapid rate of habitat modification loss
THE EASTERN
THE
HIMALAYAS
THE
4 WESTERN
GHATS
HOTSPOTS
INDO BURMA
IN INDIA REGION
SUNDALAND
THE EASTERN
HIMALAYAS
The eastern Himalayas region
encompasses Bhutan, north
eastern India and southern,
central and eastern Nepal.
Sitting at the juncture between
Asia and the Indian subcontinent,
the region is geologically young
and characterized by extreme
altitudinal Variations, Which
contribute to its rich biological
diversity
10000 PLANTS MAMMALS:300 SPECIES BIRDS:977 SPECIES
SPECIES
REPTILES: 176 SPEICES AMPHIBIANS:105
SPEICES
WESTERN GHATS
• 5000 flower plants
Worlds • 139 mammals
Biodiversity • 508 birds
Hotspots
• 179 amphibian
species
Most • 325 globally
biodiverse
regions threatened species
• 1600km – covering
Gujarat, Goa,
Location Maharashtra, Tamil
Nadu, Kerala,
Karnataka
EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES
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