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    India has a huge variety of wildlife species including tigers, lions, rhinoceros, and elephants. It is home to four of the world's 35 biodiversity hotspots and many endangered species. In recent years, expanding human populations have threatened India's wildlife, leading to the establishment of national parks and protected areas to safeguard crucial habitats under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and Project Tiger initiative.

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    India has a huge variety of wildlife species including tigers, lions, rhinoceros, and elephants. It is home to four of the world's 35 biodiversity hotspots and many endangered species. In recent years, expanding human populations have threatened India's wildlife, leading to the establishment of national parks and protected areas to safeguard crucial habitats under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and Project Tiger initiative.

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    India has a huge variety of wildlife species including tigers, lions, rhinoceros, and elephants. It is home to four of the world's 35 biodiversity hotspots and many endangered species. In recent years, expanding human populations have threatened India's wildlife, leading to the establishment of national parks and protected areas to safeguard crucial habitats under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and Project Tiger initiative.

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    THE WILDLIFE IN INDIA

     Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to


    include all plants, fungi and other organisms that grow or live
    WILD in an area without being introduced by humans.
     India has a huge variety of species and organisms. India has an
    amazingly wide spectrum of animals native to the country. It is
    home to Bengal and Indochinese tigers, Asiatic Lions, Snow
    leopards, various species of deer, the Indian Elephant, The Great
    Indian Rhinoceros and many more.
     India has some of the most biodiverse regions of the world and
    hosts four of the world’s 35 biodiversity hotspots- Western
    Ghats, The Eastern Himalayas, Indo-Burma and Nicobar Islands.
     India is a home to some of the endangered species. This include
    Bengal Tiger, Indian Rhinoceros, Asiatic lions, mugger crocodile,
    etc.
     Many Indian species are descendants of animals originating in
    Gondwana, to which India originally belonged. Volcanism and
    climatic change 20 million years ago caused the extinction of
    many endemic Indian forms.
     Notable endemics are Nilgiri leaf Monkey and the brown and
    carmine Beddome’s Toad of the Western Ghats.

    THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE

     In recent years, human encroachment has posed a threat to


    India’s wildlife; in response, the system of national parks and
    protected areas, first established in 1935, was substantially
    expanded. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and
    Project Tiger to safeguard crucial habitat.
     Along with over 515 wildlife sanctuaries, India now hosts 18
    biosphere reserves, 10 of which are part of World Network of
    Biosphere reserves.

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