Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
4. Why is human-wildlife conflict on the rise? Why are current strategies not fully sufficient to address human-wildlife conflict? What solutions are there to help humans and wildlife coexist and how do they benefit all involved? (250 words)
Difficulty level: Easy.
Reference: Insights on India
Why the question:
The question is part of the static syllabus of General studies paper – 3 and mentioned as part of Mission-2022 Secure timetable.
Key Demand of the question:
To explain the major causes for rising cases of man-animal conflict, limitations of present strategies and possible solutions for it.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start with what you understand by Man-Animal conflicts.
Body:
Start by explaining what you understand by man-animal conflicts. 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. 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.
Write about the various government policies and programmes in this direction and their limitations.
Conclusion:
Conclude with solutions to address the issue.
