EVALUATION

This closing Evaluation exercise reviews the chapter's full span of biodiversity topics — the concept, levels, magnitude and patterns of biodiversity, its global and Indian importance, India's ten biogeographical regions, the threats and causes behind biodiversity loss (habitat loss and fragmentation, over-exploitation, exotic species, climate change, shifting and intensive agriculture), extinction, endangered organisms and biodiversity hotspots, and in-situ and ex-situ conservation strategies together with the organisations (IUCN, WWF, CITES) and laws (the Biodiversity Act) that support them — through a mix of multiple-choice and assertion-reason recognition q …