Dehradun, Aug. 24 -- The Conservation International organisation supports a concept coined by environmentalist Norman Myers called 'Biodiversity Hotspots' and it refers to certain selected wild places around the world. Our Himalayan region, including Uttarakhand, is a Biodiversity Hotspot too. But what exactly does this hot new term mean?
Basically, to fall in this hotspot category, the place must fulfill two criteria. The first one is that it needs to have a very high level of biodiversity, or in simple terms, a high count of unique species of flora and fauna need to be present. Ideally, these species of plants and animals should be endemic to the area, i.e., they are not found in any other part of the world and hence have a geographic co...