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Day 4 of 17: Biodiversity

After a long number of days, decided to get back to Environment and Ecology. It is quite an exciting phase.

Things to complete for today:
  1. Daily NEWS
  2. Compass for Biodiversity
  3. Shankar IAS book for Biodiversity
  4. Mapping and remembering locations, biodiversity parks, natural sanctuaries, etc
  5. Revision
  6. Take up the Rau's IAS test
  7. Optional for today - covering FOCUS
Completed:
  1. 6:30 - 7:30 AM -- Cleaning
  2. 7:30 - 7:50 AM -- Rest
  3. 7:50 - 8:40 AM -- DNS + Note making of few important Economy points [50 minutes]
  4. 8:40 - 8:42 AM -- MCQ based on NEWS [2 minutes]
  5. 8:50 - 9:10 AM -- Yesterday's Newspaper [20 minutes]
  6. 10:05 - 11:25 AM -- Class Notes of Biodiversity [1 hour 20 minutes]
    What did I learn?
    1. What is biodiversity - did not learn this - should learn from Shankar IAS
    2. Types of biodiversity - genetic, species and habitat (# of ecosystems in an area)
    3. Measure of biodiversity - alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, point
    4. Significance of biodiversity
    5. Types of species - keystone (predators), invasive (water hyacinth), flagship (Asiatic lion), indicator (corals)
    6. Insitu and Ex-situ conservation
    7. IUCN category - 1: strict nature reserve, 2: national park, 3: national monument, 4: wildlife sanctuary, 5: biosphere reserve, 6: community reserve
    8. Biosphere reserves are divided into - core, buffer zone, and transition zone
    9. 18 biosphere reserves in India
    10. CITES - part of IUCN: appendix 1, 2 & 3 [Washington convention]
    11. CMS - appendix 1 & 2 [Bonn convention] - part of UNEP
    12. Ramsar convention - part of Montreux Record - 28/29 Ramsar sites in India ["Wise use of Wetlands philosophy"]
    13. legally binding - UNFCCC[Kyoto and Paris Agreement(REDD and REDD+)] and CBD[Cartegena and Nagoya Protocol]
    14. non-binding agreements - Agenda 21, Forest principles, etc.
    15. Cartegena Protocol - Living modified organisms
    16. Nagoya Protocol - access to genetic resources and preserving traditional knowledge regarding the use of biodiversity
  7. 11:25 - 11:42 AM -- Writing the above summary/ Revision [17 minutes]
  8. 11:42 - 11:56 AM -- Break
  9. 11:56 - 12:25 PM -- Shankar IAS Book read (finished chapter 9) [29 minutes]
  10. 12:25 - 1:25 PM -- Lunch Break
  11. 1:25 - 2:40 PM -- Shankar IAS all chapter related to Indian biodiversity finished [1 hour 15 minutes]
  12. 2:40 - 3:40 PM -- Break
  13. 3:40 - 4:25 PM -- Finished chapter 15 [45 minutes]
  14. 4:25 - 5:30 PM -- Break
  15. 5:30 - 6:50 PM -- Half of chapter 16 finished (wasted 20 minutes) [1 hour]
  16. 7:31 - 7:45 PM -- Pre-compass for Biodiversity [15 minutes]
  17. 8:05 - 8:45 PM -- Pre-compass for Biodiversity [30 minutes]
  18. 10:00 - 10:20 PM -- Pre-compass [20 minutes]
  19. 11:35 - 12:00 AM -- Pre-compass (almost learnt nothing) [25 minutes]
Spent close to 8 hours studying today.
Should spent the extra 4 hours from tomorrow.
Strategy = Wake up and start early as saturation is reached at night.

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