Issues in Wildlife Conservation

Inadequate Habitat and Overpopulation of Wildlife

  • The biggest challenge to wildlife conservation is inadequate habitat.
  • Incidents involving wildlife leaving protected areas and entering residential areas have increased substantially in recent years. Overpopulation of wildlife is one of the reasons attributed to this.
  • Overpopulation of tigers in tiger reserves, rhinos in Kaziranga and lions in Gir, compounded by the reduction of habitat, especially for rhinos in Kaziranga, is alarming.
  • Similarly, a limited habitat with the growing population of tigers is leading to territorial fights, causing more tiger deaths and also increasing man-animal conflict as tigers are forced out of protected areas. ....
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