Question

short note on forest and wildlife.

Answer 1

..---The importance of forests cannot be underestimated. We depend on forests for our survival, from the air we breathe to the wood we use. Besides providing habitats for animals and livelihoods for humans, forests also offer watershed protection, prevent soil erosion and mitigate climate change....

Forests and wildlife are part and parcel of our precious and fragile environment and need protection and conservation  There are a couple of Acts which prohibit exploitation of endangered species of animals, birds den plants and yet the poachers are on the prowl and illegal hunting and killing of animals is being indulged in with impunity.  Because of fast shrinking forest-over and habitat come times wild animals like hyenas, tigers, wolves and leopards turn man-eaters and attack villages.  The large scale and indiscriminate destruction of forest has created a dangerous situation and alarm bells have started ringing.  Forests a swill life is very valuable and renewable sours of nature and need to be preserved protected and expanded at all costs.  Society forestry be practiced and popularized.  Depletion of forests also causes soil-erosion, floods, erratic rain-falls, droughts etc. More and more people, communities, tribal’s, non-government agencies etc. be involved in the work...

Protection and conservation of forests and wildlife are essential to maintain the earth’s health and environment.  The earth is the only known living planet and it is because of its special environment and ecology which are life-supporting.  Forests are part and parcel of our environment.  They are one of the most valuable resources and gifts of nature.  They play a key role in the maintenance of climate, rain-patterns, water and soil conservation.  They are the natural home of many types of animals, birds, reptiles, insects tic. They supply timber, fuel, medicines, wood for paper=pulp and raw materials for many industries.  The increasing depletion and destruction of wildlife is a sauce of great concern.  On out of every seven persons of the world live in India. India has 16 per cent of the world’s population with only 2.4 per cent of its land area.  

 

           India is very rich both in flora and fauna but many plant and animal species are already extinct and many other are on the road to extinction.  In spite of various acts and rules-regulations against exploitation of wildlife, the real conservation has still a long way to cover.  India is a huge country and one of the major wildlife producer countries of the world and yet there is a skeleton staff to safeguard the interest of wildlife.  Poachers are on the prowl even in sanctuaries and protected forest areas.  They have become fertile influential people and traders in animal-skins, horns, etc.

           There is mindless destruction of forests for timber, firewood and fuel.  Every year there is a loss of about 1.3 hectares of forest areas in India because of large and indiscriminate clearing of forests fro cultivation, quarrying and large dams and irrigation projects.  Then there is intensive and indiscriminate logging for commercial purposes Abu=y contractors and timber-merchants.  Over-grazing has also taken its toll.  The result is serious ecological imbalance and environment degradation.  There is much pressure on forests and the relation between men and forests has reached the lowest depth.

           The destruction and degradation of forests in upper regions like Himalayas causes such other ruins as erosion of top soil, erratic rainfall, and recurring floods.  Deforestation is a gate social and national evil and should be checked on priority basis.  It results in loss of productivity and environment degradation among much other harm.  Encroachment on forests should also be checked and, if possible, banned.  Non-government agencies, village communities, tribal’s etc. should be involved in social forestry and regeneration of degraded forest lands.  They should be allowed to share the benefits of these schemes in a judicious manner.  The forest and wildlife conservation laws shoals be made more stringent and practiced scrupulously.