Info on Wildlife Conservation in India needed!!?

I need info on wildlife conservation in India under the topics:


1.Causes pf extinction of wildlife.


2.Measures of protection.


3.Organizations involved in protection.


Any other info would be welcome


Links for sites where I might find info also welcome.Info on Wildlife Conservation in India needed!!?
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Info on the wildlife conservation programme in India:


1. A large no. of species are at risk from human activities which destroy their habitats. 91% of all endangered plants, 89% of all endangered birds and 83% of all endangered mammls, according to the IUCN. There are no precise figures for the other categories of living organisms, which are less well known. A number of particularly rich habitats are currently suffering irreversible damage: forests, arid and subarid regions, wetlands and coral reefs. The causes of extinction is mainly the destruction of wildlife's habitat. including deforestation, degradtion of coasts etc.


2. http://www.wcsindia.org/programs.html


They include training, education, research and conservation. Click 'read more' to get more info.


3. WCS INDIA


India is a mega-diversity country that is particularly rich in vertebrate fauna. This is a result of its unique biogeography, evolutionary and social histories. It has faunal elements from the Indo-Malayan, Afro-tropical and palearctic regions. For example, out of the 226 extant carnivore species in the world, 52 species, including lions, hyenas, tigers, wolves, snow leopards, leopards and 3 species of bears, occur in India, with even the cheetah being extirpated only fifty years ago.


The country has an ancient culture that views humans as a part of nature rather than as its masters; that shows a higher degree of toleration for other life forms compared to any other part of the world. Partly as a result of this - and partly due to India's colonial history - several effectively protected nature reserves have been established during the last thirty years. These now cover about 5% of the land area. However, there are formidable challenges to 'saving wildlife' in India: a billion strong human population largely dependent on land-based occupations; a high degree of reliance on biomass for fuel, energy and structural materials; excessive livestock densities - all now supplemented by a modern consumerist economy growing at 10% a year; rapidly changing cultures and attitudes towards wildlife. However, the major social and ecological transformations that we are now seeing in the rest of the tropical world - such as forest conservation and fragmentation - had occurred in India over a thousand years ago.


In this context, Wildlife Conservation Society - India program focuses on charismatic endangered megafauna in protected reserves - as the most appropriate social tactic for saving biodiversity. During its 13 years of development, WCS-India program has blossomed from a single research project to encompass all the major strategies now pursued by WCS globally: research, capacity building, policy interventions and site-based conservation.