Question

Details about "Wildlife conservation efforts in India" for icse class 10th project.

Answer 1

The Forest Conservation Act 1980 was enacted to lessen the large-scale habitat destruction caused by deforestation.India also indorsed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITIES) in 1976. As a result, ban was imposed on the commercial trading of Asian elephants which involved the export of ivory.There has been a significant change in the Forest Department’s planning policy, which not only brought an end to the alteration of first-growth forests into eucalyptus plantations, but it also swung the importance from a commercially-centered forest management to the conservation-centered forest management.The elephants have enjoyed an absolute protection in Uttar Pradesh, since the promulgation of a Wild Elephant Protection Act 1879. The authorities are also putting their efforts to instigate Rajaji National Park, Motichur and Chilla reserves.The Forest Department also compensated the families whose persons were killed by the wild animals.The capturing of elephants has been superseded.A new conservation area was also established which was named as Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve covering 5,520 km2. This area protects elephants ranging from North of Palghat Gap in Karnataka, Tamilnadu, and Kerala.The Karnataka state government has decided to exclude tourist development on elephant migration routes all throughout the Kabbini River.