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Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas
November 3 , 2018
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- According to the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas which is prepared by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, India’s soil biodiversity is in grave peril.
- It shows India among other countries whose soil biodiversity faces the highest level of risk (Coloured red on the Atlas) which include Pakistan, China, several countries in Africa and Europe, and most of North America.
- The two key drivers of biodiversity loss were the over exploitation of natural resources and agriculture.
- It highlighted that, India’s per capita ecological footprint was less than 1.75 hectares/person (which is in the lowest band, among countries surveyed) and its high population made it vulnerable to an ecological crisis.
- This ‘risk index’ for the globe indicates threats from loss of above-ground diversity, pollution and nutrient over-loading, over-grazing, intensive agriculture, fire, soil erosion, desertification and climate change.
- The findings were the part of bi-annual Living Planet Report 2018.
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