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Important animals which are protected in the But, the first Tiger Census in India was
sanctuaries are given below: conducted which revealed that there are only
1827 gers in India. It was a great ma er of
Name Place concern for the government. Therefore, our
government launched project tiger in 1973-74
Madarihat
Jaldapona for the protec on and conserva on of tiger in
(West Bengal)
the country. The objec ve of this project was to
Ghana bird Bharatpur, Rajasthan ensure the survival and maintenance of the

Manas At foot hills of the ger popula on in the country.
Himalaya in Assam This is the result of this great effort of this
near Bhutan.
project that a significant increase in the
Taroba Taroba, Nagpur popula on of gers has been seen here.

Chika Odisha

Na onal Parks : Na onal parks are also meant
1. What do you mean by planned
for protec ng and conserving wildlife. In
harves ng?
na onal parks, any kind of ac vity like forestry,
2. Can we regenerate forests? How?
grazing or cul va on are not permi ed and
3. How can we protect forests from over-
private ownership is not allowed. Any kind of
grazing?
ac vity that may cause disturbance to wild
4. Why our government has set up bio-
animals are strictly prohibited in na onal
reserves?
parks.
5. What is wild life sanctuary?
There are 66 na onal parks in our country.
6. Name any two important na onal parks.
They are spread all across the country.
Some important na onal parks are: ENDEMIC SPECIES

There are some plants and animals species
Gir Na onal Park Gujarat
which are found in some par cular regions of
Kanha Na onal Park Madhya Pradesh the earth, whereas, there are certain other
species which are found in most of the places.
Jim Corbe Na onal U arakhand This is why, plants and animals are distributed
Park
non-uniformly on the globe. The organisms
Hazaribagh Na onal Jharkhand which are highly restricted to a specific region
Park
are referred to as endemic species. These
Belta Na onal Park Jharkhand organisms generally do not survive in other
habitats or geographical condi ons. Actually,

Tiger Reserves : It was believed that the these organisms fail to adopt a new geogra-
es mated popula on of gers in India at the phical condi ons and die out. Any major
beginning of the century was about 40,000. change in their habitat may also cause severe
harm to these organism.

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