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Heywood and Watson evaluated 17 lakhs 50 thousand species in this universe. However Primental et al estimated 5-15 million species in this universe and out of which 80%, are arthropod and microbes and only small percentage is identified.

India is situated on the middle of “Afro tropical, Euro- Asian and Indo Malayan region”. India is one of the 12 mega biodiversity country of world. The 12 mega diversity region of world are Mexico, Coulombia, Medagaskar, Ikwador, Cameroon, Peru, Brazil, Jaira, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. India represents 62% endemic species. Most of these […]

The development of human culture by shaping the diversity at genetic, species and ecological levels it is a source of daily life providing food, (crops, livestock, forestry and fish) fiber for clothing, wood for shelter, warmth, medication and energy. Such crop is also called agro biodiversity.

Information technology has tremendous potential in the field of environmental educational and health as in any other field like business, economics, politics or culture.

The objectives and guiding principles for developing environmental education are as follows:

Environmental education is the process of recognizing value and classifying concepts in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the interrelatedness of man, his culture and his biophysical surrounding.

The draft declaration describes the rights as well as duties that apply to individuals, government, international organizations and transnational corporations.

Health means disease free body. The state of health of the people does not depend on the number of doctors and hospitals, but also on clean environment. An unclean environment can cause a number of health problems because ecological changes have a direct impact on human health.

Most population experts believe that less developed nations must initiate family planning or welfare program in order to check population growth. This program allows couples to determine the number and spacing of offspring’s.

Baby boom is called population explosion. There is sudden and fast increase in the birth of babies. India is caught in the grip of population explosion. Here birth rates are higher than death rates in spite of family planning measures.

The exponents of this theory comment that population growth as described by Malthus is not always bad. Increase in population helped the economic growth of Western European countries rather than hindering it.

Robert Malthus, an English clergyman put forward the theory of population in his book’ An Essay on The Principle of Population in 1978.

In the earlier theories of population it is mentioned that population increases fast but its rate of growth falls with the industrial development.

Exponential growth means growth in the population of organism at a constant rate per unit of time. It is called exponential growth because existing population is multiplied in geometrical ratio.

Growth of population is a function of birth rates and death rates. Number of persons (babies) born per thousand people during a certain period of time in a country is called birth rate (BRs).

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