Biodiversity Conservation Perspective in Context to Policy and Institutional Reforms for Mainstreaming and Up-scaling Sustainbale Land and Ecosystem Management in India

Abstract

Plant diversity especially wild plant diversity is under serious threat due to human interference. Degradation of areas under agriculture, forest and woodland results in to the loss of biodiversity, productivity, disruption in ecosystem functions, and develop vulnerability to climate change. Changed land-use and climate changes are projected to cause broad-scale global land-cover transformation facilitating the increase extinction rates of species. Sustainable land management (SLM) interventions aims to minimizing land degradation, rehabilitating degraded areas and ensuring the optimal use of land resources for the benefit of present and future generations. Forests prevent the siltation of rivers and reservoirs that may arise from erosion and landslides. Forest biodiversity, besides acting as the repositories of carbon has great role in natural pollination involving insects, birds and mammals.