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| Biodiversity Conservation In India |
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| The biodiversity management system for conserving biodiversity in India is shown in the chart given below: |
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| The in situ and ex situ approaches of conserving biodiversity in India |
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| Other Wild Life Projects In India |
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| 1) Project Tiger |
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| 50 years ago, there were over 40,000 tigers in India. But poaching and destruction of habitat had reduced the number to just 1827 by 1972, making them an endangered species. To protect the tigers from extinction, the Government of India started "Project Tiger" on April 1st, 1973. Due to the success of the project the tiger population has now grown to over 4,000. |
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| 2) Lion Project |
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| In Gir forest of Gujarat started in 1972. |
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| 3) Yak Research Centre |
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| In Arunachal Pradesh |
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| 4) Crocodile Breeding Project |
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| Started in 1975. |
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| 5) Himalayan Musk Deer Project |
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| At Kedarnath in Uttar Pradesh. |
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| 6) Project Elephant |
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| Started in 1991 |
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| 7) Snow Leopard Project |
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| At 12 reserves throughout the Himalayas. |
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| 8) Project Hanghul |
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| At Dachigan sanctuary, Jammu and Kashmir, started in 1970. |
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| 9) Rhino conservation Project at Dudhwal National Park. |
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| 10) Manipur Brow |
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| Antlered Deer Project at Keibul Lamjoa, since 1977. |
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