Genetic Diversity Erosion: Causes and Impacts
Different types of plants and animals have been blessed with peculiar and important merits. These merits are expressed in plants and animals due to specific genes found in them.
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Conservation of Wildlife
Conservation of species in their natural habitats- in areas where they occur under normal conditions is called in-situ conservation.
This type of conservation strategy protects the entire area. Such an area is protected and maintained to conserve all the known or unknown species inhabiting it.
In this type of conservation, species are not isolated or provided with health care, food, or mating facilities. Only factors detrimental to species’ existence and development are eliminated in this conservation strategy. Human interference, such as hunting, cutting down trees, collecting firewood, etc., is completely banned in such areas.
Forests and their types
A forest is a highly complex and constantly changing environment. It is made up of a variety of living things like wildlife, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, mosses, lichens, fungi and microscopic soil organisms; and non-living things such as water, nutrients, rocks, sunlight and air. Trees are the biggest part of this complex community.
Modern Agriculture and its impact on the Environment
More than half of the population of the world comprises farmers. These farmers know that maintenance and conservation of natural resources are very important to sustain their livelihoods. However, the demand of more and more food due to exploding population and higher expectations for comfort and wealth forces these farmers to exploit more and more of the natural resources through the application of modern technology.
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Nuclear Family
Introduction to Nuclear Family A nuclear family is a small family unit consisting of parents and their children. In modern…
Urban Environment Facing lots of Problems …
As per an assessment, about 600 million people inhabited urban areas of the world in the year 1950. But now urban areas have been recorded to be inhabited by about half of the total population.
On the World Autism Day …
April 2 every year is celebrated as the World Autism Day. The aim of the celebration of this day is to create Awareness among parents about this problem with their children.
Pollution Control Approaches
It is the unthinkable huge magnitude of all the ill effects of pollution and its ever-increasing nature, which has forced the whole of humanity to do a great deal of serous thinking about its attitude towards the relationships with the natural environment.
Characteristics of Animals
This word is usually applied for the non-human members of the Kingdom Animalia in animal taxonomy. However, the closer relatives of humans like mammals (having mammary glands) have been included in this term. Thus cows, bats, rats etc also are mammals.
Management and Protection of Crops
Proper arrangement of resources and techniques to check losses to crops through different factors is called as Crop Protection Management.
More Earthen Lamps May Light Homes This Diwali
Traders have turned faces against Chinese goods this Diwali season. It has increased the hopes of Soil Workers (Potters) in India.
What is respiration and how is it different from breathing?
The digested food is absorbed into the body from where it is distributed to all its cells.
