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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
               Identified with several flora and research evidential sources, as we observed the condition of

               orchid will damage due to some road widening and already this orchid is in threatened list as






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