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. ....