Forest and Wildlife Resources. Conservation of Forest and Wildlife Resources
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Social science
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Conservation preserves the ecological diversity and our life support systems- water, air and soil.
Forest and
Wildlife Resources
2. In agriculture, we are still dependent on traditional crop varieties.
2 Forest and
Wildlife Resources
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MIND MAP
Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in India
1. Conservation
preserves the ecological diversity and our life
2. In agriculture, we are
still dependent on support systems- water, air and soil.
3. In the 1960s and
1970s,
traditional crop varieties.
conservationists
demanded a national
Act was implemented in 1972, withwildlife protection programme.
4. The Indian Wildlife
(Protection)
5. Central and many state various provisions for protecting habitats.
governments established national parks and wildlife
sanctuaries.
Community and Conservation
1. In Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, villagers have fought against mining by citing the
Act. Wildlife Protection
2. The inhabitants of five villages in the
Alwar district of Rajasthan have declared 1,200
as the Bhairodev Dakav 'Sonchuri'. hectares of forest
3. The lamous Chipko movement in the
Himalayas has not only successfully resisted deforestation in several
areas but has also shown that community afforestation with
successtul.
indigenous species can be enormously
4. Farmers and citizen's groups like the Beej Bachao
Andolan in Tehri and Navdanya have shown that
adequate levels of diversified crop production without the use of synthetic chemicals are
possible and
economically viable.
5 In india joint forest management (JFM) programme furnishes a go0d example for
involving local communities
in the managerment and restoration of degraded forests.
6. JM depends on the formation of local (village) institutions that undertake protection
activities mostly on
degraded forest land managed by the forest department.
Types of Distribution of Forests and Wildlite Resources
More than halt of the total "Forest and wasteland
Reserved torest area Protected
" Government, private Unclassed
" Most valuable individuals and
Jammu andKashmir, Andhra Almost one third of the total forest area communities
Pradesth, Tamil Nadu, West Protected trom any further depletion North-eastern states
Bengal, Kerala, Uttarakhand " Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal and Gujarat
and Maharashtra Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan
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