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A wildlife sanctuary in India is defined as a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or other interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide opportunities for study or research. The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 provides for the establishment of protected areas in India. [1]
It is located in South Delhi District all along Delhi, Faridabad and Gurgaon interstate border. It can be accessed from several points from Delhi and Haryana. On Delhi-Faridabad order, it can be approached from Tughlaqabad (Mehrauli-Badarpur Road) to Surajkund Mela Road (2 km (1.2 mi)) near Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, or from Mehrauli via Chhatarpur Temple 6 km (3.7 mi) near Sanjay Colony ...
It was restored in 2014–16 on 87 hectares of Kamla Nehru Ridge (also called Northern Ridge) near Delhi University. [1] [6] The ridge was infested with the invasive species of prosopis juliflora (Vilayati Babul or Kikar of Mexican origin), which were planted in the 1920s by the Britisher colonisers to rehabilitate the wasteland.
As a bird sanctuary it was the find of Peter Michel Jackson, famous British ornithologist, and honorary secretary of the Delhi Birdwatching Society, who wrote to Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, founder of the society, in 1970 about the need to declare the Sultanpur jheel near Delhi, a bird sanctuary, and she asked him to take her there.
Neela Hauz biodiversity park, [2] located on South Central Delhi Ridge of Aravalli range next to Sanjay Van, in Delhi, India, [3] [4] is a 3.90 hectares mini biodiversity and wetland area along Aruna Asaf Ali Road. [5] [1] It lies in the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor.
Conservation Reserves are the legally protected areas which act as a buffer zone or connectors or migratory corridors between two ecologically separated wildlife habitats to avoid fragmentation. The wildlife conserves are declared by the state government in official gazette. [ 1 ]
Wildlife Institute of India webpage on India's Biosphere Reserves at archive.today (archived 9 May 2004) United Nations List of National Parks and Protected Areas: India (1993) at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 25 November 2001) Ministry of Environment and Forests
In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger in 1973 to safeguard the habitats of conservation reliant species. As of January 2023, [update] India has 106 national parks covering 44,402.95 square kilometres (17,144.07 sq mi), roughly 1.35% of the total geographical area of the country.