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Forest diversity is one of the important components of the earth ecosystem. The anthropogenic activities that are responsible for loss of diversity mainly are livelihood and livestock dependency on the forest, which arises due to poverty, unemployment, overgrazing, agricultural expansion, and clearing forest land for other purposes. The other development activity such as urbanization, transport, communication development, hydroelectricity generation, and tourism also causes great loss to the ecological diversity. These activities in long-term cause the disappearance of forests, fragmentation of natural habitats, loss of ecosystem sustainability, changes in land use, alteration in vegetation dynamics, and change in the species composition. The various biodiversity management activities such as in-situ and ex-situ conservation approach, socio-economic and eco-development initiatives, social forestry programmes, implementation of indigenous-community oriented policies, conservation of localized plant communities and restoration of green forest cover has demonstrated the strong potential to restore regional diversity to great extent. However, at the global scale, more number of programmes, policy and action plans for biodiversity conservation and management needed to be initiated for enhancing the sustainability of the earth’s ecosystem.
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Himshikha, Dobhal, S., Ayate, D., Lal, P. (2022). Influence of Anthropogenic Activities on the Biological Diversity of Forest Ecosystem. In: Rani, M., Chaudhary, B.S., Jamal, S., Kumar, P. (eds) Towards Sustainable Natural Resources. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06443-2_12
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