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Biodiversity heritage sites 

November 9, 2020
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Karnataka get four more areas as biodiversity heritage sites

What are the biodiversity heritage sites?

“Biodiversity Heritage Sites” (BHS) are well-defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems – terrestrial, coastal and inland waters and, marine  having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the following components: 

  • The richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories
  • High endemism
  • Presence of rare and threatened species
  • Keystone species
  • Species of evolutionary significance
  • Wild ancestors of domestic/ cultivated species or their varieties
  • Past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and having significant cultural
  • Ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity
  • With or without a long history of human association with them

New sites

Following are the four new areas that Karnataka Biodiversity Board has decided to declare as biodiversity heritage sites:

  1. Antaragange Betta in Kolar district: 
  2. Aadi Narayana Swamy Betta in Chickballapur district
  3. Mahima Ranga Betta in Nelamangala, Bengaluru district
  4. The Urumbi area on the Kumaradhara river basin in Dakshina Kannada district
Source: The Hindu & WII
Tags: Prelims

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