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DECLINING SOIL BIODIVERSITY AND POLLINATORS POPULATION
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- According to the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas prepared by theWorld Wide Fund for Nature –
- India among nations whose soil biodiversity faces the highest level of risk.
- India, Pakistan, China, several countries in Africa and Europe, and most of North America – have been coloured red on the Atlas
- Soil biodiversity encompasses the presence of micro-organisms, micro-fauna (nematodes for example), and macro-fauna (ants, termites and earthworms).
- The WWF’s ‘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 majority of flowering plants are pollinated by insects and other animals.
- It has been estimated that the proportion of animalpollinated wild plant species rises from an average of 78% in temperate-zone communities to 94% in tropical communities.
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