Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife is an important natural resource of our country. At present Wildlife and their habitat all over the country have been adversely affected due to human population explosion, advent of industrial and technological innovation, agricultural expansion, over-grazing by livestock, land erosion by wind and water, fuel wood cutting and indiscriminate hunting and poaching.

Pakistan has some of the world’s rarest wild animals and bird’s species but these are now in danger of extinction due to exploitation and loss of natural habitats. Biodiversity conservation is a component of sub-sector of natural resource conservation that has been accorded high priority in five year plans.

As explained above populations of most of our wildlife species have become very rare and most of them are listed as endangered. In addition to habitat degradation and ruthless haunting and poaching, improper management has been an important factor in taking these species to their present status. Lack of scientific data about the biology and ecology of these species from their natural habitat and captivity is a major constraint in their scientific management. In order to conserve and manage valuable wildlife species, in nature and in captivity, data on biology, ecology and behavior of wildlife species is needed but it is very difficult to record the exact observations of some wildlife species due to their peculiar shy-habits in their inaccessible natural habitat and it remains the main hurdle in their management in natural habitat as well as in captivity i.e. in wildlife safaris, reserves, sanctuaries and wildlife parks.