Sacred groves: a traditional way of conserving plant diversity in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India

Sacred groves are forest patches conserved by the local people interwined with their socio-cultural and religious practices.  An extricable link between the past and present society in terms of religion, socio-culture, heritage and biodiversity exists in the sacred groves.  It is distributed globall...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uday Kumar Sen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2019-02-01
Series:Journal of Threatened Taxa
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Online Access:https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4310