Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
6. In the near future, there would be more severe irreversible repercussions if the necessary efforts to reduce these increased human-wildlife conflicts were not adopted. It has become important to reduce the growing conflicts between humans and wild animals in light of this serious economic and environmental issue. Examine. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Moderate
Reference: Down to Earth , Insights on India
Why the question:
Wild elephants in Odisha face imminent danger from live electric wires. Several tuskers have fallen prey to low-hanging naked wires and even traps with live conduction by poachers, raising a serious question regarding their safety.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about factors that can lead to a global food crisis and steps needed to safeguard India’s vulnerable.
Directive:
Examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we must investigate the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin by defining human-animal conflict and statistics related to it.
Body:
First, discuss what the main causes of man wildlife conflict are – The cause of human wildlife conflict was human settlement, agricultural expansion, illegal grass collection, over grazing by livestock and deforestation in national park.
Next, write about its consequence – As a result, local communities disliked wildlife inhabiting in and around their surroundings. human population growth and expansion, habitat degradation and fragmentation, land use transformation and increasing densities of livestock grazing in protected areas are considered as major causes of man-carnivore conflicts.
Next, Write about the various government policies and programmes in this direction. Also, write about the further steps that are needed in this regard.
Conclusion:
Conclude by writing a way forward.
