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| Gee, E.P. | |
| The present status of four rare animals of India | |
| 1962 Cheetal (4): 29-33 | |
Any news of wild life preservation (or lack of it) in India, as in other parts of South Asia, must be examined against the background of a young democratic and liberal administration which has not sought to restrict the issue of licenses for firearms and which has encouraged rapid development and industrialization. The wildlife outside the sanctuaries has suffered very much owing to the increase in human population and spread of villages and agriculture, and an equal increase in numbers of domestic cattle and buffaloes with the consequent opening up of new areas of grazing. With these changes it is inevitable that there should now be great pressure from all sides on the shrinking wild life population. Those animals and birds outside the sanctuaries have become considerably reduced in numbers in nearly all parts of the country, while those which are supposedly protected inside the sanctuaries have in many cases suffered losses from poachers and others. Unless great care and vigilance are exercised by the State Government of the Indian Union, the wild life of this country will be in danger of complete extermination in the not-far distant future. |
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