Answer:
In some areas of
India, local communities are struggling to conserve forests and wildlife along
with government officials, to secure their own livelihood.
(i) The
famous Chipko Movement in the Himalayas was organized which has not only
successfully resisted deforestation in several areas but has also shown that
community afforestation with indigenous species can be enormously successful.
(ii)
Attempts to revive the traditional conservation methods or developing new
methods of ecological farming are new widespread.
(iii)
In India, Joint Forest Management (JFM) Programme furnishes as a good example
for involving local communities in the management and restoration of degraded
forests.
(iv)
Nature worship is an age-old tribal belief based on the premise that all creations
of nature have to be protected. Such beliefs have preserved several virgin
forests in pristine form called 'Sacred Groves'.
(v) The Central
Government has announced several projects for protecting specific animals,
which were gravely threatened including the tiger, one-horned Rhinoceros, etc.
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