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Conservation reserves and community reserves in India are terms denoting protected areas of India which typically act as buffer zones to or connectors and migration corridors between established national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserved and protected forests of India.
The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 Parliament of India Long title An Act to provide for the protection of Wild animals, birds and plants and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. Citation Act No. 53 of 1972 Enacted by Parliament of India Enacted 9 September 1972 Status: In force The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted ...
The Ramsar Site Information Sheet notes that "at a time when wetlands in northern India are getting reduced due to extensive drainage and reclamation, the avian habitats formed by the creation of the Pong Dam assume a great significance" - given the site's location on the trans-Himalayan flyway, more than 220 bird species have been identified ...
Notes Andaman & Nicobar Islands 8249 9 1,216.95 14.75 Andhra Pradesh 160229 3 1368.87 0.85 Arunachal Pradesh 83743 2 2,290.82 2.74 Assam 78438 7 2,664.58 3.40 Bihar 94163 1 335.65 0.36 Chandigarh 114 0 0.00 0.00 Chhattisgarh 135191 3 2,899.08 2.14 Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 491 0 0.00 0.00 Delhi 1483 0 0.00 0.00 Goa 3702 1 107.00 2.89
National parks in India are IUCN category II protected areas.India's first national park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, now known as Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh, India.It was established in 1986 and covers 2,073 km 2 (800 sq mi) across Meerut, Muzzafarnagar, Ghaziabad, Bijnor, Meerut and Amroha districts.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is a wildlife conservation agency formed to protect the endangered Bengal tiger in India. It was established by the Government of India in December 2005 for the management of Project Tiger and the various tiger reserves in India.
The most widely known Indus Valley sites are Mohenjo-daro and Harappa; Mohenjo-daro is located in modern-day Sindh, while Harappa is in Pakistani Punjab. [6] in British India, around 1,100 (80%) sites are located on the plains between the rivers Ganges and Indus. [3]