Biodiversity Conservation

They constitute the world’s largest and most important terrestrial ecosystems, and is home to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Even the simplest forests consist of unnumbered co-existing life forms, from soil microbes and arthropods in the litter layer to lichen. Significantly, the areas with the highest biodiversity are also those under greatest threat. Every year 46-58 thousand square miles of forest are lost to deforestation, which is equal to an astounding 48 football fields of forest disappearing every minute.
Assam, located in the eastern most part of India between 24°.07’ N to 28°00’ N Latitude and 89°.42’ E to 96°. 02’ E Longitude, having a geographical area of 78,438 sq. km, constitutes 2.39% of the country’s total area. This land which the Ahom Rulers described as “Nung Dun Chun Kham” or the “Country of Golden Gardens”, is endowed with natural bounty rarely found elsewhere. But today, the alarming rate of deforestation in the state has severely affected the existing ecological balance which needs to be urgently arrested.