Role of Emerging Technologies for Conservation of Biodiversity

Abstract

The problem of conservation of biodiversity needs to be viewed in the total perspective of sociology, history, economics, state of the art technologies, etc to name a few disciplines. Once erring segments of human society get convinced about mending their ways, technological solutions will be there to find an acceptable alternate lifestyles which will be sustainable for a significantly longer span of time. Frontier areas of technology, viz, IT, GIS, Remote Sensing, Biotechnology, Energy etc. are some of the disciplines that have important roles to play for conservation of biodiversity. Biotechnology even has the potential to reverse the trend of erosion of biodiversity. In this paper the role of these disciplines in conservation of biodiversity has been discussed. Simultaneously, attempt has been made to correlate these with other traditional disciplines so far as conservation of biodiversity is concerned.