Detail of habitats and causes of habitat degradation. What is habitat. Description of habitat. Habitat and habitat degradation. Habitat fragmentation. Causes of habitat degradation. Habitat refers to the range of resources that a species needs to maintain a viable population. Habitat fragmentation is the loss and subdivision of a habitat and the corresponding increase in … [Read more...]
Anthropogenic Interventions and their impacts on environment
Anthropogenic Interventions and their impacts on environment. Anthropogenic Interventions (human interventions) in natural ecosystems. Many groves are suffering what is called “Sanskritization”, the transformation of primitive nature worship into formal Hindu practice. Natural forest areas degraded due to anthropogenic interventions like shifting cultivation, over exploitation … [Read more...]
Deforestation and Its impacts on nature & natural resources
Deforestation and Its impacts on nature & natural resources. Deforestation harms nature and natural resources. Deforestation is the conversion of forest to another land use or the long-term reduction of the tree canopy cover. Deforestation — Defined as the conversion of forested land to other uses, or a permanent reduction of canopy cover — has attracted increasing … [Read more...]
Degradation of Religious Belief and taboos – causes and impacts
Degradation of Religious Belief and taboos - causes and impacts. Religious Belief and sacred grove conservation. Role of Religious Belief and taboos in conservation of natural forest. Religious Belief and taboos are the constructive tools for conserving the natural forest patches. Natural forest patches in the different regions indicated that the erosion of religious beliefs … [Read more...]
Herb collection and its impacts on natural forest
Herb collection and its impacts on natural forest. Unsustainable extraction of medicinal plants from natural forest areas. Medicinal value of natural forest areas. In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness that the significance of medical plant studies goes beyond mere anthropological curiosity. Natural forests are the refugia for many medicinal, rare, endemic, … [Read more...]