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Introduction
With a land mass of the 329 million hectares and coast line of 7516 km, with oceans, lakes,
rivers and mighty Himalayas and several other mountains ranges, the desert of Rajasthan, the
plateaus, the wetlands and the islands of Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, India, our
beautiful country, is the home to an amazing variety of fauna and flora. There are about 75,000
species of animals, of which 340 species are mammals, 1200 birds, 420 reptiles, 140
amphibians, 2000 fishes, 50,000 insects, 4000 molluscs and several other species of
vertebrates.
Need for Conservation
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The gradual emergence of the human beings as the most dominant species among all other
species of animals and the attempt of the human beings to set them apart from other species is
the main underlying cause of the contemporary environmental disaster. The main reason
behind a threat to the wildlife and the ecosystem is the constantly growing deforestation,
poaching and negligence towards animals and nature.
At the present estimate, 81 species of mammals, 38 species of birds, 18 species of amphibians
and reptiles considered to be endangered in India. The tiger is the largest living member of the
cat family, followed by the lion and the leopard. Habitat destruction and poaching brought
about a sharp decline in their number and the national census of tigers in 1972 recorded that
there were just 1827 of them in our country.
With the entire gloomy picture in regard of our wildlife, India is keen to do its best to protect
its wild life. Luckily, we have ability and media, vocal environmental groups, NGOs and
others who would not tolerate any more interference or intuition with the vast diversity of
animal wildlife.

Significance of Wildlife Conservation
The wild creatures are a nature's gift which help embellish the natural beauty by their unique
ways of existence. But due to growing deforestation and negligence, their is a threat to the
wildlife...

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