Biodiversity Act of India was passed by the Parliament in the year 2002.

Endangered Species are those facinga high risk of extinction in the near future due to decrease in its habitat,excessive predation or poaching. The percentage number of endangered species in the list of threatened ones is 19% mammals, 17% birds, 21% reptiles, 22%amphibians and 19% angiosperms. In India their no. is 54 animals and 113 plants e.g.Red Panda, Bentinckia nicobarica.