National parks and sanctuaries are areas of significant ecological, floral, faunal or natural signif...

SUNLIGHT: Sunlight penetration rapidly diminishes as it passes down the column of water. The d...

Hot spots are the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life of the earth. They...

When corals face stress by changes in conditions such as temperature, light, or nutrients, they expe...

A seed bank is a kind of gene bank that stores seeds of food crops or any rare species of plants. Se...

Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972 consists of 6 schedule lists, which give varying degrees of prot...

The aquatic organisms are classified on the basis of their zone of occurrence and their ability to c...

Established in 1964, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threaten...

Phytoplankton, also known as microalgae, are microscopic plant organisms that live in aquatic enviro...

Over the past two years, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Milk Fortification Programme,...

> It is found in India and Bangladesh as a freshwater turtle.   > Of the 29 freshwate...

  > The 2006 notification of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) made it mandatory to...