Protecting and Preserving Natural Resources and Animals Species
Earth’s natural resources include air, minerals, plants, soil, water, and wildlife. conservation is the care and protection of these resources so that they can persist for future generations. It includes maintaining diversity of species, genes, and ecosystems, as well as functions of the environment, such as nutrient cycling.
Conservation is similar to preservation, but while both relate to the protection of nature, they strive to accomplish this task in different ways. Conservation seeks the sustainable use of nature by humans, for activities such as hunting, logging, or mining, while preservation means protecting nature from human use.
The goal of National Parks, for instance, is preservation with an emphasis on causing minimal change to the landscape or environment, meanwhile National Forests can be used for cattle grazing, lumber, hunting, and recreation.
Continued human population growth has led to unsustainable rates of consumption of our natural resources, resulting in a loss of Earth’s biodiversity. The main factors driving biodiversity loss include habitat destruction, climate change, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution.
Types Of Natural Resources
1. Renewable resources:
Renewable resources are those that are constantly available (like water) or can be reasonably replaced or recovered, like vegetative lands Animals are also renewable because with a bit of care, they can reproduce offspring's to replace adult animals If renewable resources come from living things. (such as trees and animals) they can be called organic renewable resources.
If renewable resources come from non-living things, (such as water, sun and wind) they can be called inorganic renewable resources.
2. Non-renewable resources
Non-renewable resources are those that cannot easily be replaced once they are destroyed. Examples include fossil fuels. Minerals are also non renewable because even though they form naturally in a process called the rock cycle, it can take thousands of years, making it non-renewable. Non-renewable resources can be called inorganic resources if they come from non-living things. Examples include include, minerals, wind, land, soil and rocks.
Some non-renewable resources come from living things such as fossil fuels. They can be called organic non-renewable resources.
Importance of Natural Resources
Natural resources play a significant part in our lives. It will be really difficult to imagine the world without the natural resources. The globe without natural resources will be the as the globe without nature. The resources not only add to our lives, they serve the realm of progress.
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN THE BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT
Wildlife is an important component of biodiversity. To prevent the extinction of species, various projects have been initiated by the Indian government, such as:
1). Project Tiger.
2). Project Elephant.
3). Indian Rhino Vision 2020.
4). Crocodile Conservation Project.
5). Sea Turtle Project.
6). Vulture Conservation Project.
1). PROJECT ELEPHANT
Initiated in 1992 which aims at conserving clephants and their habitat and of migratory routes by developing scientific and planned management measures.
2). INDIAN RHINO VISION 2020
* It is an effort of pact made by the Bodoland Territorial Council. WWE (World Wildlife Fund). IRF (International Rhino Fund) and the US Fish and Wildlife Services.
* It's main objective is to conserve at least 3000 greater one-homed rhinos in Assam. India by 2020.
3). PROJECT TIGER
* One of the most successful wildlife conservation ventures Project Tiger which was initiated way back in 1972, has not only contributed to the conservation of tigers but also of the entire ecosystem.
* This project is sponsored by Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change.
BENEFITS OF WILDLIFE
1). Wildlife is an essential component of various food chains, food webs, biogeochemical cycles and energy flow through various trophic levels.
2). Preserves vitality and health of environment and provides stability to various ecosystems.
THREATS TO WILDLIFE
1). Habitat loss : Population growth, fast industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation have all contributed to a large-scale destruction of natural habitat of plants and animals.
2). Indiscriminate hunting : Indiscriminate killing and poaching of wild animals for food, horn, fur, tusk etc. has resulted in reduction and even extinction of many wild species.
3). Pollution : Air, water, soil and noise pollution of the magnitude and toxicity never seen before is the major factor. Natural habitats have been destroyed or damaged by activities such as the indiscriminate use of synthetic materials, release of radiations and oil spills in the sea, generation of effluents and wastes of various kinds and toxicity, and their unscientific disposal.
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