This document provides information about heritage sites, biodiversity in different countries, and charts/tables. It discusses three categories of heritage sites - natural, cultural, and mixed. Examples are provided for each category. Information is then given about the biodiversity of Italy, India, Ukraine, and China, including details on their national parks, endemic species, forests, and more. Two charts and a table with sample data are also included.

1. Heritage
The Gift of Inheritance

2. Heritage Sites
• Contains the most important and significant
natural habitats for in-situ conservation of
biological diversity
Natural
• Represents a masterpiece of human creative
genius and cultural significance
Cultural
• Combination of Natural and Cultural Sites
Mixed
Examples
 Hampi, Kaziranga, Sundarbans etc
 Ajanta Caves, Konark Sun Temple,
Jantar Mantar etc
 Khangchendzonga National Park
World Heritage site - Any of various areas or objects
inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List.

3. ITALY The Italian peninsula is in the
center of the Mediterranean Sea
and has 8,000 km of coastline.
 Italy has the highest level of
faunal biodiversity in Europe,
more than a third of all
European fauna

4. Bio Diversity of Italy
• Italy counts 22 national parks.
• Endemic species - Unique mammals include the Corsican hare, long-
eared bat, the Apennine shrew, the Calabria pine vole and the Sardinian deer.
• Italy has recorded 516 bird species.
• There are 102 species of mammals.
• Italian Mediterranean coastal zone are covered with large
gorgonian fans, coral, and a diverse array of often colorful invertebrate
organisms and hundreds of species of fish.

5. INDIA
• India is the seventh
largest country in the
world.
• 21.54 percent of the total
area of the country is
covered by forests.

6. Bio Diversity of India
• There are 104 existing national parks in India.
• India has wide range of Eco zones - desert, high mountains, tropical
and temperate forests, plains, grasslands and islands.
• India has more than 1,200 species of birds and perhaps 2,000
subspecies.
• India is home to several well-known large mammals like Asian
elephant, Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion, leopard and Indian rhinoceros.
• India is home to 7.6% of all mammalian, 12.6% of all avian, 6.2% of all reptilian,
4.4% of all amphibian, 11.7% of all fish, and 6.0% of all flowering plant species.

7. UKRAINE
• Ukraine is the 46th
largest country in the
world.
• Ukraine has coastline of
2,782 kilometers.

8. Bio Diversity of Ukraine
• Ukraine has three biosphere reserves and three national parks.
• Fourteen percent of the Ukrainian territory is covered by forests.
• The most densely forested area of Ukraine has pine, oak, and birch tree
species .
• Ukraine has 108 species of mammals and 350 species of birds, 21 species of
reptiles, 17 species of amphibians.

9. CHINA
• China is the fourth
largest country of the
world.

10. Bio Diversity of China
• China is home to a dozen primate species - gibbons, macaques,
leaf monkeys, snub-nosed monkeys, Antelope, Deer, Pangolin, bats and giant
panda.
• Oceanic species in china are – dolphin, Whales, Fin whales and
Dugongs.
• The largest deer is the Elk, which is found in the Greater and Lesser Khingan
ranges of the northeast China.
• China has over 32,000 species of vascular plants.
• The National Park System of China has 11 units.

11. Chart
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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4
Series 1 Series 2 Series 3

12. Table
Class Group A Group B
Class 1 82 85
Class 2 76 88
Class 3 84 90
• First bullet point here
• Second bullet point here
• Third bullet point here