According to recently released Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas prepared
by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), India among nations that face grave danger
to soil biodiversity. The atlas was released as part of WWF’s bi-annual Living
Planet Report (LPR) 2018.
WWF’s ‘risk index’ for globe: It indicated threats from loss of above-ground diversity, pollution and
nutrient over-loading, over-grazing, intensive agriculture, fire, soil erosion,
desertification and climate change.
India was coloured red on atlas and is among countries whose soil
biodiversity faces the highest level of risk. Other countries in this category
include Pakistan, China, several countries in Africa and Europe, and most of
North America.
World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF)
It is international non-governmental organization working field of the
wilderness preservation and reduction of human impact on the environment. It
was formerly named World Wildlife Fund. It is world’s largest conservation
organization with over five million supporters worldwide, working in more than
100 countries, supporting around 1,300 conservation and environmental projects.
It founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Gland, Switzerland.
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