{"id":54641,"date":"2021-10-08T05:07:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T05:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=54641"},"modified":"2021-10-08T05:07:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T05:07:47","slug":"negative-factors-that-cause-such-fearful-depletion-of-the-flora-and-fauna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/negative-factors-that-cause-such-fearful-depletion-of-the-flora-and-fauna\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative factors that cause such fearful depletion of the flora and fauna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India is a land of varied flora and fauna. It is one of the 12 mega biodiversity hotspots of the world. Two of India&#8217;s great mountain ranges, the Eastern Himalayas and the Western Ghats, have been designated among the world&#8217;s 18 biodiversity hotspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, in the last few decades, we have seen a steady increase in the extinction rate of flora and fauna all over the world including India. The conservation of biodiversity is of paramount importance to our survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The negative factors that are causing the depletion of flora and fauna in India are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Excessive consumption of natural resources for fulfilling human needs such as wood, barks, leaves, rubber, medicines, dyes, food, fuel, fodder, manure, etc.<ol><li>The expansion of the railways, agriculture, commercial and scientific forestry and mining activities.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>Large-scale development of projects and mining activities.<\/li><\/ol><ol><li>Unequal access, inequitable consumption of resources and differential sharing of responsibility for environmental well-being.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is a land of varied flora and fauna. It is one of the 12 mega biodiversity hotspots of the world. 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But, in the last few decades, we have seen a steady increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":54649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[1838],"class_list":["post-54641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-notes","tag-geography-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54652,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54641\/revisions\/54652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}