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ARUN KUMAR.
Roll no.(100106075)
SEC-ME(A)G2
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All living things (except people) that are

undomesticated

Wild animals and vegetation, especially animals living

in a natural, undomesticated state.
Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, rain
forests, plains, and other areas including the most
developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife

most scientists agree that wildlife around the world is

impacted by human activities.

Humans have historically tended to separate civilization

from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal,
social, and moral sense

While the term in popular culture usually refers to

animals that are untouched by human factors
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Habitat: an area with the combination of
resources (food, cover, and water) that allows
for a species to survive.
Habitat requirements vary by species
‡ Generalist species
‡ Specialist species
‡ Migratory species
 Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human
benefit has a major impact on the environment, both positive
and negative.
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Humans have historically tended to separate civilization
from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social,
and moral sense

Literature has also made use of the traditional human

separation from wildlife.
 



 
 
Many wildlife species have spiritual significance in
different cultures around the world, and they and their
products may be used as sacred objects in religious
rituals.
For example, eagles, hawks and their feathers have
great cultural and spiritual value to Native Americans as
religious objects
Religions have often declared certain animals to be
sacred.
Modern times concern for the natural environment has
provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for
human benefit or entertainment.
 
 
  
Fuelled by media coverage and inclusion of conservation
education in early school curriculum, Wildlife tourism &
Ecotourism has fast become a popular industry
generating substantial income for developing nations
with rich wildlife specially , Africa and India.

This ever growing and ever becoming more popular form

of tourism is providing the much needed incentive for
poor nations to conserve their rich wildlife heritage and
its habitat

  

Exploitation of wild populations has been a characteristic of

modern man since our exodus from Africa 130,000 ±
70,000 years ago.
The rate of extinctions of entire species of plants and
animals across the planet has been so high in the last
few hundred years
Extinction is the level of damage to a wild population
from which there is no return.
Habitat destruction including grazing of bush lands by
farmed animals, changes to natural fire regimes, forest
clearing for timber production and wetland draining for
city expansion
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a subspecies of the lion which survives today only in
the Gir Forest of Gujarat, India .

Asiatic lion are smaller and lighter than their African

counterparts, but are equally aggressive. It is sometimes
misidentified as the national animal of India, which is in
fact the Tiger, D
  

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivore
Family: Fieldale
Genus: Panthera
Species:
SubspeciesR
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Asiatic lion populations have suffered due to sport
hunting in the 1800s (until it was outlawed)
habitat loss due to the clearing of jungle forest for
extracting wood and human settlement.
The = a national park and lion sanctuary has been
successful in stabilizing one of the last remaining wild
populations.
Also, the species does well in captivity and some are
found in zoos

 
   

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 is an effort to
save the Asiatic lion from extinction in the wild.

The last wild population in the Gir Forest region of the

Indian state of Gujarat is threatened by
epidemics, natural disasters and anthropogenic factors

The project aims to establish a second independent

population of Asiatic Lions at the Kuno Wildlife
Sanctuary in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.[1]
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary was selected as
the reintroduction site for critically endangered Asiatic
lion because it is in the former range of the lions before it
was hunted into extinction in about 1873. It was selected
following stringent international criteria and
internationally accepted requirements & guidelines
developed by IUCN/SSC Reintroduction Specialist
Group and IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist
Group which are followed before any reintroduction
attempt anywhere in the world.
Samrakshan Trust, an NGO, has been working for better
rehabilitation of villagers who agreed to move out of the
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary.
 Scientists from India have since reported that the low
genetic variability may have been a feature of the
original population, and not a result of inbreeding. They
also show that the variability in immunotypes is close to
that of the tiger population and that there are no
spermatozoa abnormalities in the current population of
lions.

Recent information from the Central Zoo Authority of

India (CZA) reports that "the Asiatic lions and Indian
tigers are not as inbred as previously reported by S.J. O'
Brien and do not suffer from inbreeding depression".
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