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Select the correct statement about biodiversity.
  1. The desert areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat have a very high level of desert animal species as well as numerous rare animals.
  2. Large scale planting of BT cotton has no adverse effect on biodiversity.
  3. Western Ghats have a very high degree of species richness and endemism.
  4. Conservation of biodiversity in just a fad, pursued by the developed countries.

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Conservation of biodiversity in just a fad, pursued by the developed countries.
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Large scale planting of BT cotton has no adverse effect on biodiversity.
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Western Ghats have a very high degree of species richness and endemism.
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The desert areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat have a very high level of desert animal species as well as numerous rare animals.
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Running along the entire west coast of India, the mountains of the Western Ghats are no snow-peaked Himalayas. But what they lack in height they make up for in biodiversity, harbouring an impressive array of India's wildlife. More like rolling hills than snow-covered mountains, the Western Ghats - stretching some 1,600 km from the north of Mumbai to the southern tip of India are a biodiversity hotspot, that contains a large proportion of the country's plant and animal species; many of which are only found here and nowhere else in the world. In the northern part of the range, about one-third of the plants, almost half the reptiles, and more than three-fourths of the amphibians known in India are found in this narrow strip of rainforest just off the west coast. The forests in the southwestern Ghats are even richer, hosting the country's largest population of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) as well as Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris), lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus), sloth bears (Ursus ursinus), nilgiri tahrs (Hemitragus hylocrius) and much more.

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