Respected Seniors and Dear friends, With due respects,
The basic point is, to conserve a species, you need to identify it first. Its ironic that, researchers get involved in research which are often lab based with sophesticated aspects using hi-tech tools and techniques, on the other hand the field botany and the field botanists are getting on the verge of extinction. Personally I have seen people working on aspects like tissue culture, medicinal aspects, molecular aspects, as some of the premier institutes and universities in India, with wrongly identified specimens and publishing articles in international journals, only to fool others but infact they are fooling themselves only!! We feel great to know that, there is around 90% endemicity in Western Ghats but it is ironic and shameful that we dont even have a proper conservation status assigned to them following proper IUCN norms!!! Red Data Book of India is not based on IUCN norms hence it is not followed worldwide. It is ironic that still after 120 years of Hooker's Flora of British India, we dont have a flora of our country written by Indians though we have atleast one University in each and every district of India. After over 40 years of Champion and Seth, we still dont have an update on the forest types of our country.....AND WE BOOST ABOUT THE BIODIVERSITY OF OUR COUNTRY!! Forget about plants, can anyone tell me how many Frog species are there in India, or Butterflies or Lizards?? JAGO INDIA JAGO!!! These are my personal feelings and not meant for any of the individuals of this community or outside. Regards Pankaj Kumar, Ph.D. Dehradun +919412368451 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
