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Carbon sequestration is the process of transferring CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil, plants or plant residues, and other organic solids, which are stored or retained in the unit as part of the soil organic matter. Retention time of sequestered carbon in the soil (terrestrial pool) can range from short-term (not immediately released back to the atmosphere) to long-term (millennia) storage. Western ghats are one of the Mega biodiversity centers in the world and second in India. In the present work, I studied the carbon sequestration potential of the Durgawadi Sacred grove from Junnar Tehasil. It is situated in North-western Ghats in the state of Maharashtra. According to the recorded data from the Durgawadi sacred grove field survey plateau tree cover plants are Memecylon umbellatum, Olea dioica, Syzygium cumini, Xantolis tomentosa, Atalantia racemosa, Diospyros montana, and Gnidia glauca, Memecylon umbellatum and Actinodaphne angustifolia are the most dominant species in terms of carbon sequestration. Durgawadi plateau covers floristic composition present but this plant vegetation is in the form of herb, shrub, tree and these vegetation plant species numbers are 360 in which I am focusing only Durgawadi sacred grove. In this sacred grove above mention plant species were found. These species contribute 106.4 tonnes of biomass per hector for this site. Thus the total biomass contribution by these dominant species in the Durgawadi Sacred grove for the total area of 10.3 ha is 5728.1714 tons.