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'Bio-diversity in NE under threat'
Times of India | TNN | Nov 2, 2011, 12.20PM IST
Though the northeastern region of the country is considered an ecological hotspot, large sections of the local people are not even aware that the region reservoirs of biodiversity are under constant threat.
Experts say that at present the region is suffering from destruction offorests that is threatening permanent loss of biodiversity due to unsustainable logging and jhuming (slash and burn method of farming).
In fact, scientists say that the rate of "biodiversity depletion" in the region is quite alarming than many parts of the world as there is an estimated annual conversion of three per cent of the primary forest into secondary or degraded forest mainly due to jhuming (shifting cultivation).
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