Punjab’s sacred groves, hosting native flora and fauna, and associated with people’s beliefs and traditions, need urgent attention. Widespread human interference in the form of agricultural expansion, overgrazing, a boom in monoculture plantations, and the proliferation of invasive species have become pressing challenges. india.mongabay...
Experts suggest conservation of these biodiversity hotspots by bolstering the documentation of the flora and fauna in the groves and building seed banks of native plant species to replenish the tree cover.
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16 сен 2024