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Sahyadri e-news is CES-ENVIS's quarterly newsletter, covering the issues related to Western Ghats biodiversity. Western Ghats is rich in diversity of life. Due to unplanned developmental activities, its ecological resource base is under threat, with extensive destruction of natural habitats, widespread degradation of ecosystems and a growing burden of air and water pollution. Simultaneously, knowledge base of uses of biodiversity is also being eroded, with the present generation becoming increasingly alienated from the natural world.
We need to carefully plan on conserving, sustainably using and restoring the biological diversity of the Western Ghats. We also need to conserve and benefit from the knowledge of uses and the traditions of conservation of this biological diversity. Also, we must ensure that benefits flowing from our heritage of biodiversity and related folk knowledge percolate down to the people at the grass-roots.
In this Issue the 1st Article Provides the approaches to be adopted in Anuran description to minimise ambiguities. The Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, among the hottest hotspots of biodiversity, are being in more focus on amphibian studies, especially after the report of discovery of about 200 old world tree frogs from these two regions. Eventually, these regions became amphibian hotspots of the globe, surpassing Borneo, Madagascar etc. The evidence of decline in amphibian global population fuelled amphibian research in the past two decades, which has led to the description of new species and also to controversies associated with the approaches in describing a new species.
Articles 2 - 8 brings out Unusual Foraging behavior observed while in field.