Q. Illustrate Wild Life Sanctuaries?
You must have seen how some of the parks are fenced. The intention is to keep the animals from wandering out and not to destroy neighbouring farms. The fence insulates the park further. The problem is not keeping the animals in but keeping the people out. The most important thing to realise about wildlife today is that in most places there are not enough predators. The reasons for this are complex. Mankind by his use of agriculture has had more impact on wild life than anything else. Predators need a more space than their prey. This is the reason why big fierce animals etc. rare. They are rare everywhere, but when they are both rare and restricted to small islands the dangers are immense.
By declaring some areas as wild life sancturies the natural community along with its ecosystem is preserved. In a wild life sanctuary killing, hunting, shooting or capturing of any species of birds and mammals is prohibited except by or under the control of the highest authority in the department responsible for the management of the sanctuary. Vagaries in the climate have always resulted in fluctuations in populations. If there is not enough. food in one place the animals inove to another area where it is more plentiful: Also, the animals succumb to other animal predators, they fall ill! they starve, and ultimately die. Death is a way of life. What Charles Darwin called the "checks to increase" keeps numbers down both by removing animals from the population and by ensuring that few animals survive beyond their reproductive prime. In captivity most of the checks to population growth are removed.
Wild life conservation includes all human efforts to preserve wild animals from extinction. The progress of man throughout has been beneficial for the human race but it is the wild life that has suffered through the years. You should know that wild life represents the result of many years of evolution and constitute an environmental heritage of the past, a world which once surrounded our ancestors. We are responsible to the coming generation to leave as an inheritance an unspoiled world intact with living beauty and.-richness. In India, several laws have been passed and wild life sanctuaries and national parks have been established for the protection of the dwindling wild life. The wild birds arid animals protection act was passed in 1812 and repealed in 1887. Indian Board for Wild Life was established in 1952 and thiswas followed by setting up of wild life boards in different states in India. In 1972, a new Wild Life Protection act was passed. Under this act, possession, trapping, shooting of wild animals alive or dead are controlled and watched by Chief Wild Life Warden and authorised officers. Conservation projects for individual endangered species like deer (1921), Crocodiles (1947), hangul (1970), Lion (1972), and tiger (1973) were initiated. Wild life sanctuaries are places where the killing ad capturing of any animal is prohibited except under orders of the authorities concerned. Today India has 412 Wild Life Sanctuaries and 80 National Parks. There is one gene. sanctuary each for Citrus and pitcher plants both located in north east India. You should bear this thing in mind that plants are critical to the very existence of all life on the surface of earth.