Today, " The Call to Earth" series is headed to a biodiversity hot spot in India where a local researcher has developed a device to alleviate the growing issue of human elephant conflict.
A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is under threat from humans.
Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988), & 1990 revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others in “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions” and a paper published in the journal Nature