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Flora and Fauna in India Narak! My Lord, you are the creator of music If you look around, you will be able to find in the world of Lepchas that there are some animals and plant...

Flora and Fauna in India Narak! My Lord, you are the creator of music If you look around, you will be able to find in the world of Lepchas that there are some animals and plants which Oh Narak! My Lord, let me dedicate are unique in your area. In fact, India is myself to you one of the world’s richest countries in terms Let me gather your music from the of its vast array of biological diversity. This springs, the rivers, the mountains, the forests, is possibly twice or thrice the number yet the insects and the animals to be discovered. You have already studied Let me gather your music from the sweet in detail about the extent and variety of breeze and offer it to you forest and wildlife resources in India. You may have realised the importance of Lepcha folk song these resources in our daily life. These diverse flora and fauna are so well integrated in our daily life that we take We share this planet with millions of other these for granted. But, lately, they are living beings, starting from micro-organisms under great stress mainy due to insensitivity and bacteria, lichens to banyan trees, to our environment. elephants and blue whales. This entire habitat that we live in has immense biodiversity. We humans along with all Find out stories prevalent in your region living organisms form a complex web of which are about the harmonious relationship ecological system in which we are only a between human beings and nature. part and very much dependent on this system for our own existence. For example, Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in India the plants, animals and micro-organisms re-create the quality of the air we breathe, Conservation in the background of rapid the water we drink and the soil that decline in wildlife population and forestry has produces our food without which we become essential. But why do we need to cannot survive. Forests play a key role in conserve our forests and wildlife? the ecological system as these are also the Conservation preserves the ecological diversity primary producers on which all other living and our life support systems – water, air and beings depend. soil. It also preserves the genetic diversity of plants and animals for better growth of species and breeding. For example, in agriculture, we are still dependent on traditional crop Biodiversity or Biological Diversity is varieties. Fisheries too are heavily dependent immensely rich in wildlife and cultivated on the maintenance of aquatic biodiversity. species, diverse in form and function but In the 1960s and 1970s, conservationists closely integrated in a system through demanded a national wildlife protection multiple network of interdependencies. programme. The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Reprint 2024-25