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What is India’s wealth in biodiversity?
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- India has a share of 8.1% of total biodiversity wealth of the earth.
- India is one of the 12 megadiversity countries of the globe.
- India has 2.4% of total land area of the world but there are around 45000 identified plant species and nearly double the number of animal varieties in India.
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