Friday 14 September 2012

Critically Endangered animal Species of India



 Our team has studied the data provided by government of India on "Critically Endangered
animal Species of India " and found that more than 50 species are on the verge of extinction due to the lack of efforts made by our government agencies .
Data studied by us shows that the tigers which is the pride of India, now are left very few in our forest  due to excessive killing and poaching .
The matter is so serious about tigers, is that the Indian government is now planning  to spend more than 50 lakh dollars to bring 18 tigers from Africa.  If this much money would have  been  used to save them , there would no need to this thing .

Critically endangered is the highest risk category assigned by the IUCN (International  Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List to wild species. There are five quantitative criteria to determine whether a taxon is threatened. A taxon is critically endangered when the best availabile evidence indicates that it meets any of the following criteria:
I. Populations have declined or will decrease, by greater than 80% over the last 10 years
or three generations.
II. Have a restricted geographical range.
III. Small population size of less than 250 individuals and continuing decline at 25% in 3
years or one generation.
IV. Very small or restricted population of fewer than 50 mature individuals.
V. High probability of extinction in the wild.

some of the endangered species are :
The big cats (Tigers ), Elephants ,Rhinoceroses ,Tibetan Antelope,Forest Owlet,Bengal Florican,
The Himalayan Quail,Gharial, Leatherback Turtle etc.

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