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H. Answer the questions in detail :
1. What is the difference between tidal forests and thorny forests?
2. Give an account of the mountain forests in India.
3. What is the difference between conservation of forests and wildlife?
4. What is the difference between an evergreen tree and a deciduous tree?

5. How are forests useful to us?
6. Write a short note on coniferous forests.

1. If there were no forests, what would happen to us?
2. Why is it necessary to conserve wildlife?

Project Tiger

Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973
by the Government of India, and is still going on. The project aims at
ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats,
protecting them from extinction, and preserving areas of biological
importance as a natural heritage forever represented as close as
possible the diversity of ecosystems across the distribution of tigers in
the country. The project’s task force visualized these tiger reserves as
breeding nuclei, from which surplus animals would migrate to adjacent
forests. Funds and commitment were mastered to support the
intensive program of habitat protection and rehabilitation under the project. The government has set
up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers and funded relocation of villagers to minimize human-
tiger conflicts. Project Tiger has been successful in increasing the population of the tigers.

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