1) India plays an important role in wildlife conservation. The love for wildlife is a part of Indian culture.

it is densely populated country and people have different religion with their own faith in God. The people think that different animals are related to different gods, which ensure their conservation. The wildlife means all organisms living in their natural habitat. 2) The concern for wildlife is concern for man himself. Because all the species are interrelated, for example, in an ecosystem if the number of a particular species increases or decreases, whole ecosystem is disturbed or imbalanced. So, in addition to the economic importance, the wildlife balances population and maintains food chain and natural cycle. Therefore, it helps to preserve environment as a self sustaining system.

3) The wildlife is conserved by conservation of forests and at present by latest gene technologies. Many programmes are held today in the field of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. Plant breeders are also able to produce high yielding and disease resistant varieties. The genes of animal are also stored in the gene libraries. The cloning is also there and there are more chances of cloning in future. Thus man has a responsibility for conservation of wildlife with the help of In-situ and Ex-situ conservation. 4) In-situ conservation is primarily related to the natural biodiversity within the evolutionary ecosystems of the original habitat or natural environment. It is best, easiest, most advantageous, besides being most feasible method to conserve biological diversity. In-situ conservation includes a comprehensive systems of protective areas. These include National Parks Sanctuaries Nature Reserves, Cultural Landscapes, Biosphere reserves and several others. In India there are 66 National Parks and 392 Sanctuaries. The protected Areas Network, mow constitutes 2.7% of country. 5) Ex-situ conservation is conservation outside their habitats by perpetuating sample population in genetic resource centers, zoo, botanical gardens, culture collections etc, or in the form of gene pools and storage for fish, germ plasm banks for seeds, pollens, semen, ova, cells etc. For example, the Pere David's Deer and European Bison have lost their wild land habitats many decades ago, but have been kept alive solely through zoos and similar facilities.

6) A forest is a biotic community and naturally provided by nature, for wildlife conservation. Deforestation has a bad effect on economy, life conservation and future of environment. Due to deforestation soil erosion, drought and floods, loss of wildlife and environmental difficulties occur. India was thickly populated with forests in the past. But now forests cover about 22.7% of land mass. It has been estimated that forests in India have declined from 7000 millions hectares (in 1900) to 2890 million hectares (in 1975). By the year 2005 only 1800 million hectares will be left.