Plantdiversity Reaches an Astonishing Level In Tropical Forests. at the Same Time,It Is Changing at an Unprecedented Rate As a Complex Response to Severalhuman-Impacts. Documenting Such Impacts, Which Date Back to Antiquity and Evento Pre-History, on Genetic Diversity of Forests Is a Difficult Matter Andlittle Quantitative Data Exist. Primary Forests of Asia, Particularly Those Ofthe Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats of Peninsular India Are Disappearing Atan Alarming Rate Due to Human-Impacts.