conclusion on Indian Wildlife
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India is home to a variety of animals.[1] Apart from a handful of domesticated animals, such as cows, water buffaloes, goats, chickens, and both Bactrian and Dromedary camels, India has a wide variety of animals native to the country. It is home to Bengal and Indochinese tigers, Asiatic lions, Indian and Indochinese leopards, snow leopards, clouded leopards, various species of Deer, including Chital, Hangul, Barasingha; the Indian Elephant, the Great Indian Rhinoceros, and many others.[2][3] The region's diverse wildlife is preserved in more than 120 national parks, 18 Bio-reserves and more than 500 wildlife sanctuaries across the country. India has some of the most biodiverse regions of the world and contains four[4] of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots[5] – the Western Ghats, the Eastern Himalayas, Indo-Burma and Sunda Land.[6] Wildlife management is essential to preserve the rare and endangered endemic species.[7] India is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries. According to one study, India along with the other 16 megadiverse countries is home to about 60-70% of the world's biodiversity.[8] India, lying within the Indomalaya ecozone, is home to about 7.6% of all mammalian, 12.6% of avian (bird), 6.2% of reptilian, and 6.0% of flowering plant species.[9]
Many Indian species are descendants of taxa originating in Gondwana, of which India originally was a part. Peninsular India's subsequent movement towards, and collision with, the Laurasian landmass set off a mass exchange of species. However, volcanism and climatic change 20 million years ago caused the extinction of many endemic Indian forms.[10] Soon thereafter, mammals entered India from Asia through two zoogeographical passes on either side of the emerging Himalaya.[11] As a result, among Indian species, only 12.6% of mammals and 4.5% of birds are endemic, contrasting with 45.8% of reptiles and 55.8% of amphibians.[9] Notable endemics are the Nilgiri leaf monkey and the brown and carmine Beddome's toad of the Western Ghats. India contains 172, or 2.9%, of IUCN-designated threatened species.[12] These include the Asian elephant, the Asiatic lion, Bengal tiger, Indian rhinoceros, mugger crocodile, and Indian white-rumped vulture, which suffered a near-extinction from ingesting the carrion of diclofenac-treated cattle.[citation needed]
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Conservation of Wildlife :
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Due to destruction of habitats, Wildlife has main threat. The construction of industries, houses, dams has left fewer areas where animals can breed, nest and feed.
preventing deforestation is an important method of habitat preservation. Planting new forests provides shelter and food for wildlife. By creating wildlife sanctuaries we can protect natural habitat. Habitat can be preserved by preventing deforestation.
planting trees( afforestation ) to create new forest which provides shelter and food for wildlife can also protect natural habitat of animals by creating wildlife sanctuaries.
India has a rich variety of flora and fauna. Man has destroyed them to quite an extent. Animals that cannot adjust to the environmental changes , begin to die. As a result, many animals and birds that once existed on the earth , have perished away.
Some important International NGO's with branches in India are :-
» The world wide Fund For nature ( WWF )
» The International Union For the conservation of Nature and Natural resources ( IUCN )
» The World conservation union ( WCU ) work of wildlife conservation.
The Government has taken various steps to conserve our natural vegetation and wildlife. Some of them are : -
★ Social Awareness programmes .
We have an annual festival in our country wherein trees are planted throughout the country. All people must participate in social awareness programmes like ' Van Mahotsava' by planting saplings in their surroundings.
★ Wildlife Protection Act , 1972.
In country like India, where hunting is considered as an act of bravery, animal head and skin are smuggled to other countries at huge prices. Some body parts of animals are used in Chinese and Tibetan medicines. Body parts of tiger, lion, and black buck are used in making trophies. Wildlife protection act , 1972, provides protection to wild animals, birds, and plants.
★ Special projects .
These have been launched to protect the endangered species, e.g :- Project tiger , presently there are 29 tiger reserves in india, e.g :- Sariska tiger reserve , under the project elephant , there are 14 elephant reserves in india.
★ wildlife Sanctuaries .
These refer to protected areas set up to prevent the extinction of animals. They primarily protect those endangered species of birds and animals that are under the threat of becoming extinct. There are 510 Wildlife sanctuaries in india.
★ National parks .
These are the areas where wild animals and natural vegetation are together preserved. There are 96 national parks in india. e.g ;- Kaziranga national park in Assam, jim Corbett national park in uttarakhand.
★ Bioreserves .
These refers to large areas where the vegetation, wildlife and Environment are conserved to preserve the biological diversity. There are 14 Bioreserves in india. , e.g :- Nanda devi in uttarakhand, Nilgiri in western Ghats.
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