Conservation Of Plants And Animals

(a) Sanctuary

(b) Endemic

(c) Climatic

(a) Wildlife sanctuary and biosphere reserve

(b) Zoo and wildlife sanctuary

(c) Endangered and extinct species

(e) Flora and fauna

(a) Wild animals: Forests are natural habitat of variety of animals, birds and plants. When forests are cut, the natural habitat of the animals gets destroyed. As a result of which they migrate to other places or may face extinction.

(b) Environment: Tress maintain the ecological balance. Deforestation is disturbing the whole set of our ecosystem, leading the major environmental changes like global warming.

(c) Villages (Rural Areas): Deforestation increases the chances of soil erosion. As a result, soil losses humus and become less fertile. This hampers agricultural activities and thus disturbs the people in rural areas.

(d) Cities (Urban Areas): Deforestation in cities can increase the risk of many natural calamities such as floods and droughts in that area.

(e) Earth: As a result of deforestation, the chances of drought, floods, desertification increase. Deforestation also increase the level of carbon dioxide on the earth, it will lead to global warming which increase the temperature on the earth. As a result, the entire natural water cycle will get disturbs.

(f) The next generation: Deforestation will offer great challenges to the next generation in the form of of scarcity of water, droughts, storms, floods, pollution, etc. They will not be able to see wide variety of flora and fauna also not get clean and cool environment. As a result, the next generation will have to face severe consequence of deforestation.

(a) If we go on cutting trees then:

* If we go on cutting trees, the chances of soil erosion will increase. As a result, soil losses humus and become less fertile.

* The natural habitat of many animals get completely destroyed.

* The ecological balance will get disturbed and floods and drought will become more frequent.

(b) The habitat of an animal is disturbed:

The habitat of an animal provides it with necessities such as shelter, food, and protection. If the habitat of an animal is disturbed, then it will be forced to go to other places in search of food and shelter. The animal could get killed by other animals in this process.

(c) If the top layer of soil is exposed:

If the top layer of soil is exposed, then it will gradually expose the lower layer of soil, which is hard and rocky in nature. This soil has less humus and is less fertile. Gradually soil erosion will make the land barren or infertile.

(a) Biological diversity or biodiversity refers to the variety of organisms existing on the earth, their interrelationships and their relationship with the environment. This means that the destruction of either of two will affect the life of the other. Hence, we should conserve biodiversity to maintain balance in the nature.

(b) Protected forests are also not completely safe for wild animals because people living in neighbourhood encroach upon them and destroy them to fulfil their own requirements.

(c) Some tribes live in the jungle and depend on forests for their daily requirements like food, fodder and fallen branches of trees.

(d) Deforestation means clearing of forests and using that land for other purposes. The main cause of deforestation is growing urbanization and industrialization.

Consequences of deforestation are as follows:

• Global warming
• Soil erosion
• Depletion of groundwater
• Droughts and flood

(e) Red data book is the source book which keeps a record of all the endangered animals and plants.

(f) Migration is the phenomenon of movement of a species from its own habitat to some other habitat for a particular time period every year for a specific purpose like breeding.

It is not justified to cut trees for such project. Forests are natural habitat of variety of animals, birds and plants. Deforestation increases the temperature and pollution level on the earth. Plants absorb CO2 and give us oxygen. If plants are destroyed, the level of CO2 also increase in the atmosphere which lead to global warming.

We must reduce our dependency on our forest resources to meet the ever--increasing demand in factories and for shelter. We should look for some other alternative for the same. If trees are cut blindly and no trees are planted then the earth will face global warming, no rainfall, climate change, soil erosion and deforestation. Hence, forests must be conserved.

We can contribute to the maintenance of green wealth: by taking following actions:

* By taking care of the plants and trees growing in our locality.

* By planting more and more trees.

* By encouraging awareness among the people in the locality about the importance of growing trees.

* By watering them regularly.

Deforestation is the removal of trees from an area for industrial, agricultural or other purposes. Plants absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere. If plants are destroyed the level of carbon dioxide will increase in the atmosphere which will lead to global warming as carbon dioxide traps the heat rays reflected by the earth. The increased temperature on earth will disturb the natural water cycle. As a result of this disruption in the water cycle there will be change in the rainfall pattern also.

The national parks in my state:

1) Corbett National Park: Nainital district of Uttarakhand

2) Sariska Tiger Reserve: Alwar district of Rajasthan

3) Ranthambore National Park: Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan

Paper is made from wood pulp that is produced from the wood of forest trees. The paper should be saved because it takes around seventeen full grown trees to make one tonne of paper. If everyone saves at least one sheet of paper in a day, we can save many trees in a year. Trees are important to maintain a balance of nature. Therefore, we should save paper.

Ways by which paper can be saved:

i) Reuse used paper and recycle it.

ii) Use both sides of a paper for writing.

iii) Use chalk and slate for doing rough work.

iv) Spread awareness about the importance of the paper.

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1. ENDANGERED

2. RED DATA BOOK

5. DESERTS

Across

1. EXTINCT

3. ENDEMIC

4. BIODIVERSITY