The fate of several globally endangered species has been threatened by dwindling grasslands in Assam, which has no natural grassland of any significance worth conservation left, say wild-life experts. In the first-ever world-wide fund survey of grasslands in the North Cachar hills, Harmen and Barak valley, it was found that "grasslands cover less than two per cent of the total geographycal area under study adversely affecting the rich bio-diversity of the region," says Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Principal Investigator of WWF's Bio-diversity Conservation Prioritisation Project (BCPP)