Prelims: Current events of national and international importance
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Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change unveiled the roadmap for the national-level assessment on World Congress of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at Abu Dhabi.
India is home to approximately 8% of global plant species and 7.5% of global animal species.
Living Planet Report (2024) – A critical decline in global biodiversity, reporting a 73% decrease in the average population sizes of 5,495 vertebrate species between 1970 and 2020.
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