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been identifying and assigning threat status to species following different approaches. The

trade of species mentioned in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is prohibited, and the plant species

mentioned under Schedule-VI of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 (WPA) have been accorded
adequate protection. Despite all these efforts, threat assessment and conservation actions for

threatened plants in India are in a state of flux due to lack of consensus at the national level.
Research on the threatened plants of India with special focus on the identification of factors

causing their rarity, reproductive bottleneck, and both demographic and environmental

stochasticity leading to the declining populations and eventual extinction can be of great help
to policy makers and scientists to prioritize the species and conservation actions. The states

with relatively high CAMP is Tamilnadu(193), Kerala(176), Karanataka(161). As he

mentioned the species Vanada wightii is also in the list of threatened species and it is
endangered to karnataka and kerala, in India. Therefore, the process of conservation done

with macro-propagation (S.K.Barik, 2018), but we can also adopt it in natural condition with
needed environmental conditions. During a recent field survey of orchids in the state of Goa

in December 2015 as part of the project. Assessment of orchids of Central Western Ghats by
Botanical Survey of India, an interesting orchid was collected by the first author. On the

detailed study and critical examination, it was identified as Vanda wightii Rchb.f. A Scrutiny

of literatur4e (Vartak, 1996; Rao, 1986; Naithani et al., 1997; Janarthanam et al., 1999; Datar
et al., 2005; Jalal and Jayanthi, 2012; Datar and Laskshminarasimhan, 2013) revealed that

species is hitherto unreported from Goa. Also, as we mentioned above reference are very
close to the rare and threatened to the acquired places in Karnataka, India.

According to Dr. S. William Decruse they have restored Vanda wightii seedlings ex-
situ on Dalbergia latifolia, Terminalia paniculata and Tectona grandis. These seedlings got

well acclimatized in natural conditions on this hosts at JNTBGRI, Thiruvanthpuram.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:
Study Area:

The place Tarwad via Ramanagar to Anmod Ghat, Belgum District, Karnataka (Fig.1) India

(15°25'49.3"N 74°30'18.7"E , 15°46'39.4"N 75°09'10.3"E & 15°26'17.2"N 74°18'37.8"E)
placed from the distance of Belgaum district and it is about 44.22 km (27.48 mi) is the area

which we studied and analyzed whether the government construction of roads widening
makes harmful for the threatened species or not, in that the Vanda wightii is one of them,

with the help of other research parameters and evidential base, we found some host trees
along the road side, in that the Vanda wightii species grown and distributed widely. Orchid

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