Forest and wildlife are vital to the quality of life and environment.

Justify thisstatement by giving three reasons.

 

Three reasons are given as under.

1. Forests and wildlife provide sustenance to a large number of indigenous and other forest-dependent communities which depend on them for food, drink, medicine, culture, spirituality, etc.

 

2.  Depleting forest and wildlife results in scarcity of food, fodder, water and other basic sustenance needs. This leads to increased drudgery of women as they bear the major responsibility of collecting these essential necessities. This increased work pressure causes serious health problems for women and negligence of home and children has grave social implications.

 

3. Destruction of forest and wildlife results in extreme climate conditions like severe droughts and floods which results in huge losses to life and property resulting in poverty and impoverishment.

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The destruction of forests and wildlife is not just a biological issue. The biological loss is strongly correlated with the loss of cultural diversity. Such losses have increasingly marginalised and impoverished many indigenous and other forest-dependent communities, who directly depend on various components of the forest and wildlife for food,drink, medicine, culture, spirituality, etc. Within the poor, women are affected more than men. In many societies, women bear the major responsibility of collection of fuel, fodder, water and other basic subsistence needs. As these resources are depleted, the drudgery of women increases and sometimes they have to walk for more than 10 km to collect these resources. This causes serious health problems for women and negligence of home and children because of the increased hours of work, which often has serious social implications. The indirect impact of degradation such as severe drought or deforestation-induced floods, etc. also hits the poor the hardest. Poverty in these cases is a direct outcome of environmental destruction. Therefore, forest and wildlife, are vital to the quality of life and environment in the subcontinent. It is imperative to adapt to sound forest and wildlife conservation strategies

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