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Types of Forests | |
Forest Conservation | |
Wildlife | |
Wildlife Conservation in India | |
Biosphere Reserve |
Natural vegetation refers to a plant community that has been left undisturbed over a long time, so as to allow its individual species to adjust themselves to climate and soil conditions as fully as possible.
Depending upon the variations in the climate and the soil, the vegetation of India changes from one region to another. On the basis of certain common features such as predominant vegetation type and climatic regions, Indian forests can be divided into various groups.
Tropical Evergreen Forest
Semi Evergreen Forest
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Tropical Thorn Forests
Montane Forest
Swamp Forest
India's wetlands have been grouped into eight categories:
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(i) Bringing 33 per cent of the geographical areas under forest cover.
(ii) Maintaining environmental stability and to restore forests where ecological balance was disturbed.
(iii) Conserving the natural heritage of the country, its biological diversity and genetic pool.
(iv) Checks soil erosion, extension of the desert lands and reduction of floods and droughts.
(v) Increasing the forest cover through social forestry and afforestation on degraded land.
(vi) Increasing the productivity of forests to make timber, fuel, fodder and food available to rural population dependant on forests, and encourage the substitution of wood.
(vii) Creating of a massive peoples movement involving women to encourage planting of trees, stop felling of trees and thus, reduce pressure on the existing forest.
Reasons of the declining of wildlife are as follows:
Biosphere Reserves in India
A Biosphere Reserve is a unique and representative ecosystem of terrestrial and coastal areas which are internationally recognized within the framework of UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
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