Tracking India s wealth
India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year project, jointly undertaken by the Department of Biotechnology (dbt) and the Department of Space (dos), which began in 1997. The survey covered 84,000 square kilometers (sq km), comprising 44 per cent of total forest cover of India. The regions mapped extensi vely are the Northeast region, Western Himalaya, Western Ghats and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
While the National Remote Sensing Agency (nrsa) under dos chipped in with high resolution satellite images of these hotspots, dbt coordinated intensive ground level field sampling. As many as 15 institutions from across the country
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