{"id":43155,"date":"2019-03-13T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=43155"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:12:20","slug":"indias-biodiversity-rich-zones-also-hotspots-of-human-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-biodiversity-rich-zones-also-hotspots-of-human-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s biodiversity-rich zones also \u2018hotspots\u2019 of human impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/indias-biodiversity-rich-zones-also-hotspots-of-human-impacts\/article26514203.ece\">India\u2019s biodiversity-rich zones also \u2018hotspots\u2019 of human impacts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A study titled \u201cHotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates\u201d, published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS Biology,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0has reported human impacts on species occur across 84% of the earth\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>The study has mapped distribution of human activities in areas occupied by known 5,457 terrestrial birds, mammals, and amphibians.\u00a0 The human activities taken into account are hunting, harvesting, and the conversion of natural habitats for agriculture, urbanisation, and other industrial activity.<\/li>\n<li>The study identified global hotspots of impacted species- regions were species are most impacted by anthropogenic activities. Malaysia has ranked first among the countries with the highest number of impacted species (125), followed by Brunei and Singapore. India has ranked 16th (35 threatened species affected on average). Forests in Western Ghats, Himalaya and north-east are particularly threatened.<\/li>\n<li>The study has also identified \u2018coolspots\u2019 that act as refuges from threats. The study has reported that the tundra and boreal forest are the only biomes where more species are unimpacted than impacted on average.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s biodiversity-rich zones also \u2018hotspots\u2019 of human impacts A study titled \u201cHotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates\u201d, published in the journal\u00a0PLOS Biology,\u00a0\u00a0has reported human impacts on species occur across 84% of the earth\u2019s surface. The study has mapped distribution of human activities in areas occupied by known 5,457 terrestrial birds, mammals, and amphibians.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-biodiversity-rich-zones-also-hotspots-of-human-impacts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s biodiversity-rich zones also \u2018hotspots\u2019 of human impacts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":29,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}