\n| Unclassed Forests<\/td>\n | Other forests and wastelands belonging to both Government and private individuals and communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n 4. Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
\n(i) What is biodiversity? Why is biodiversity important for human lives?<\/h2>\nAnswer:-(i) Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life forms on Earth. It can also be referred as a measure of variation at the ecosystem, species and genetic level. All the species on this Earth are living in a system having multiple networks of interdependencies. Human beings also depend on several biotic and abiotic factors for their survival like they obtain food from plants animals. They are dependent on many other species to run their business and industries. Hence, biodiversity is important for human lives.<\/h3>\n(ii) How have human activities affected the depletion of flora and fauna? Explain.<\/h2>\nAnswer:- (ii) Following activities by humans resulted in the depletion of flora and fauna:
\n\u2022 Various dam and river valley projects resulted in a decline of forest cover.
\n\u2022 Illegal mining projects also destroyed forests in a vast area.
\n\u2022 Increasing housing plans, factories and infrastructure also disturbed the flora and fauna adversely.
\n\u2022 Hunting animals for their skin, tusk, bones, teeth, horns, etc., led many species to the verge of extinction.
\n\u2022 Increasing environmental pollution caused many species of birds to extinct.
\n\u2022 Increasing forest fires due to the global warming resulted in depletion of valuable forests and wildlife.<\/h3>\n5. Answer the following questions in about 120 words.
\n(i) Describe how communities have conserved and protected forests and wildlife in India?<\/h2>\nAnswer:-(i) In India many traditional communities still live in a close contact with the forests as they depend on the forest produce for their livelihood. Such local communities are contributing significantly in conservation of the forest land. For example;
\n\u2022 In Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, villagers fought against mining activities.
\n\u2022 In Alwar district of Rajasthan, local communities belonging to five villages have set their own rules and regulations in 1,200 hectares of forest land to stop hunting and outside encroachments in these lands.
\n\u2022 The Bishnois of Rajasthan protect black buck, chinkara and peacocks quite fervently.
\n\u2022 Chipko movement is another example of community initiative that resisted deforestation in several areas.
\nNature worship is an age old tradition for many local communities. By doing so, they help in conservation of forest.<\/h3>\n(ii) Write a note on good practices towards conserving forest and wildlife.<\/h2>\nAnswer:-(ii) In India, many governmental and non-governmental organisations are working towards creating public awareness for conserving forests and wildlife. Central and state governments in India have set up national parks and wildlife sanctuaries to protect forests and endangered species in wildlife. The Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme in India furnishes a good example of involving local communities in the management and restoration of degraded forests. Under JFM local (village) institutions are set up to undertake the protection activities mostly on degraded forest land. In return, the members of these communities are entitled to intermediary benefits like non-timber forest produces and share in the timber harvested by \u2018successful protection\u2019. Many laws had been passed in the past to protect the wildlife. In 1972, the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act was implemented. It made protecting specific habitats a law. It released a list of wildlife species that had to be protected. Hunting these animals was considered as a criminal act. \u201cProject Tiger\u201d, one of the well publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1973 to save tigers in the country.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Class 10 Social Science \u2013 Geography NCERT book solutions for Chapter 2 – Forest and Wildlife Resources Questions and Answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":116832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116838,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116836\/revisions\/116838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |