About of India has some of the areas of biodiversity in the world. A wide range of ecozones political boundaries of the Indian desert, high mountains and plateaus, tropical and temperate forests, swamps, plains, meadows, rivers and surrounding areas as well as cover the island of the archipelago. It hosts three biodiversity hotspots in the Western Ghats, Eastern Himalayas, and mountains in India - riding the border with Myanmar. These hotspots have numerous endemic species.

India, for most Indomalaya ecozone is at the top of the Himalayas, some of the Palearctic ecozone, from 2500 to 2000 is Indo - Malaysia and Palearctic regions are considered the highest limit. India shows significant biodiversity. Eighteen diverse countries, is home to 7.6% of all mammals, 12.6% of all birds, 6.2% of all snakes, amphibians 4.4%, 11.7% of all the fish, and 6.0% of all species of flowering plants.
 

For dense vegetation and habitat due to seasonal changes in the nucleus is influenced by the summer monsoon. Indomalayan biogeographic region is a major part of India and forms flora and fauna, with many only a few taxa are unique to the region has similarities with the Malays. Unique forms Uropeltidae Western Ghats and Sri Lanka is only found in the family of reptiles.

Cretaceous show links to the Seychelles and Madagascar chain of islands fossil taxa. Cretaceous fauna, reptiles, amphibians and fish species are the purple frog, and is currently available from this link phylogeographical. Separation of India and Madagascar have traditionally taken place has been estimated about 88 million years ago. But there is a link suggests that Madagascar and Africa were present when the Indian subcontinent met Eurasia. Movements in Asia for many African taxa have been proposed as a ship. These five families frog taxa (including Myobatrachidae) Caecilianus three families, lacertid lizards and the Bugti Hills of central Pakistan is believed to come from fossil ape teeth of primates of freshwater snails of the family involved, but the link Potamiopsidae.A lemurs may have originated in Asia, led a. But these fossils, Oligocene (30 million years ago) is called the lost continent of Lemuria and the principles of leadership in the past led to controversy.Lemur fossils from India. But this theory was dismissed when the continental drift and plate tectonics are well established.

Flora and fauna of India were studied and popular traditions and the more formal scientific to register early by researchers. Game rules are indicated by the third century BC.

About of India a little 'less than 5% of the area officially classified as protected areas.