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Conserving Western Ghats through a website

Posted by Samraj Sahay on July 11, 2010 at 2:30am
Ecologically sensitive,Western Ghatswas declared as an ecological hot-spot in 1988. A large number ofplants, amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals are endemic to thisregion. and it accommodate 2 biospherereserves, 14 national parks and several wild life sanctuaries within its boundarie sand several reserve forests. The Western Ghats arealso home to many of the community conservation areas such as thesacred groves.

Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has developed a dedicated interactive website which fascilitates acquiring and uploading all the available relevant material on western ghats and to participate in the discussions. One can send the material in any form such as text files, pdf, databases, images, video-clips, links etc.

Sharing of the individuals knowledge base on this area through this could be one of the several ways of conserving this ecological hot-spot.

Follow the link below:

http://www.westernghatsindia.org/home
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