Evironmental law: Impact of pollution on species ( loss of habitat, species extinction) IUCN red list, biodeversity target 2010 Methods of restoration and conservation Provisions of environment protection act

1. Threats to species in the 21st
century: Global perspective
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2. Biodiversity: Indian
perspevtive
 Biological diversity refers to the variety
and variability among living organisms
and the ecological complexes in which
they occur. Diversity can be defined as
the number of different items and their
relative frequency.
 Indigenous knowledge
 7.8% of the global recorded species
 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
(1992).
 Fundamental to agriculture and food
production.

3. Threats to biodiversity
 Over-hunting
 Habitat
loss/degradation/fragmentation
 Invasion of non-native species
 Pollution
 Climate Change

4. Biodiversity Target, 2010
 EU Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden,
in June 2001.
 World Summit on Sustainable
Development held in Johannesburg in
2002
 UNECE resolution
 Biodiversity Action Plans: Tanzania,
New zZealand, Great Britain and
U.S.A called Species Recovery Plans
in the USA.

5. Biodiversity act
 Regulate access
 Conservation and sustainable use
 NBA, SSB, BMC
 Protection and rehabilitation
 Laws against Biopiracy
 Creation of funds
 Heritage sites
 Research

6. IUCN Red List
 Taxonomic, conservation status and distribution
information on plants, fungi and animals that
have been globally evaluated.
 Catalogue and highlight- Extinction
 Extinct or Extinct in the Wild, Threatened, near
threatened.
 Establish a baseline from which to monitor the
change in status of species;
 Provide a global context for the establishment of
conservation priorities at the local level;
 Monitor, on a continuing basis, the status of a
representative selection of species (as
biodiversity indicators) that cover all the major
ecosystems of the world.