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Wildlife Resources | Importance and cause of wildlife decline| Resources | Geography of India

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Wildlife:

Wildlife is all the organisms other than vegetation that live in an area that is not introduced by a human.

India is rich in wildlife as per estimate:
  • 90,000 animal species
  • 2000 bird species which is comprises 13 % of the world's total
  • 2,546 species of fish which is comprised 12 % of the world's total.
  • India has 5 to 8 % of the world's reptiles and mammals.
  • The elephants are found in the wet Forest of Assam, Karnataka, and Kerala.
  • One Horne rhinoceros: lives in the swamps and marshy lands of Assam and West Bengal.
  • The wild ass is found in the arid region of Rann of Kachchh
  • Camels are found in the arid desert of the Thar desert.
  • India is the only country that has both a lion and a tiger.
  • Gir forest in Gujarat is home to an Indian lion.
  • Madhya Pradesh, Sundarbans, and Himalayan regions are home to Tiger.
  • Ladakh regions are home of:
    • Home of Yak
    • Wild oX weight over one ton
    • Tibetan Antelope
    • Bharal; blue sheep
    • Wild sheep
  • In the Himalayan region;
    • Snow leopard
    • Red panda

Life is impossible without wildlife support.

  • Ecological importance
  • Economic importance
  • Research tool
  • Agriculture

Ecological importance:

  • The ecological importance of wildlife helps in ecosystem balance for example decrease of carnivores leads to an increase of herbivores which leads to depletion of vegetation and food shortage: as a result, crops will be destroyed.
  • destruction of one part of the ecosystem will lead to the destruction of many.

Economic importance of wildlife:

  • The wild plant provides food timbers, fiber, and medicine
  • The wild animal provides meat, Silk, lakh.
  • Wild wildlife provides the raw material for industries like Pulp and Timber and wildlife provides the source of income for the population.

Research tool:
In the research wildlife is used to do research, for example, rats and monkeys are used first for new vaccine testing or experiment

Agricultural importance

In agriculture, wildlife used to pollinate and make hybrid seeds.

Cause of  wildlife decline:

  • Habitat loss:
  • population pressure leads to an increase in demand for food fuel and energy grazing domestic cattle hunting of animals forest fire conservation of wildlife needed wildlife conservation in India 
  • Over exploitations: Rapid exploitation of Forest Reserve due to technological advancement 
  • Pollution and chemical deposit
  • Illegal poaching.
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