Dehradun, Nov. 2 -- Megafauna Conservation Index-Map

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

The Earth is going through a phase of great biodiversity loss, and this is primarily due to the loss of wild habitats itself - be it because of direct action of man or indirect impact via climate change (but that is a bit hard to quantify and prove in hard numbers). In my earlier articles I had provided statistics on the loss of Earth's forests from 1950 to now, with the world losing almost half of its terrestrial forest cover in just the last 75 years. That sobering realization long back made me think about where the true wildernesses are left in this world, if any. And the natural world today is largely decided by the political world o...