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Forest and Wildlife Resources

India- Biodiversity, Flora and Fauna

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Before starting on this chapter let us quickly revise the two most important terms when studying about forests and wildlife resources , which are flora and fauna.

 

                


 

So, it is the flora and fauna that form our environment. But, they are important for us as well. Do you know how they are important? Let’s find the answer in the following video.

Now let me share a startling fact with you. The late E.P. Gee made an intelligent guesstimate that there were 40,000 tigers in India at the beginning of the 20th century. At present this number has reduced down to less than 2500.

What could have been the reasons behind the rapid dwindling in the numbers of several animal species?

It is because of several human activities such as deforestation, hunting, poaching etc

But in the present scenario it won’t be wrong to say that there are a number of species of plants and animals that are disappearing at a fast rate. This has been due to a number of human activities some of them being deforestation, hunting, poaching etc. These activities have a direct impact on the environment and natural habitat of these animals.



According to biologists few other animals that are on the verge of extinction are the cheetah, pink-headed duck, mountain quail, forest spotted owlet, and plants like madhuca insignis (a wild variety of mahua).

So how do we control this process of rapid disappearance of the living forms?

Firstly, we need to create a proper list of all those species whose numbers have been reducing rapidly.

To make the process of evaluating the threat regarding the survival of different species, easier, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) has divided them into the following six categories based on their existence :





With this we finish all the categories in which the species can be divided into, based on their existe…

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