{"id":28408,"date":"2018-10-24T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28408"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:47:07","slug":"mercenary-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mercenary-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercenary conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/mercenary-conservation\/article24394195.ece\">Mercenary conservation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Conservationist Meghana Sanka argues that allowing private forests would lead to illegal activities and can change the natural behaviour of wildlife<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>About Private Conservancy Rules drafted by Karnataka:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Aim:<\/u> Increase forest area through private land.<\/li>\n<li><u>Provisions:<\/u> Anyone who has a minimum of 100 acres of land bordering a national park can convert it to a \u201cWildlife Private Conservancy\u201d. 5% of this land can be used to construct buildings for ecotourism. The remaining has to be kept for flora and fauna.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative of creating private forests has faced widespread criticism. The author opines that the private forest could be used for illegal activities and can modify natural behaviour of wildlife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>South Africa- A case study:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>In South Africa, agricultural land can be converted into wildlife reserves.<\/li>\n<li>The government first specifies how much land is required for each animal. After that, purchases are made and then animals are introduced in the area<\/li>\n<li>In some game reserves hunting is legal. Hunting rights for specific animals are regularly auctioned<\/li>\n<li>However, these private reserves have been criticised for poor management and exploitation of wildlife.<\/li>\n<li>Further, these reserves have induced behavioural changes among animals since these are fenced<\/li>\n<li>Some reserves have two sections: one with lions and one without. There have also been problems of overpopulation of particular species in an area.<\/li>\n<li>These private forests are also subjected to poaching. Rhinos are regularly poached for their horns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercenary conservation Article: Conservationist Meghana Sanka argues that allowing private forests would lead to illegal activities and can change the natural behaviour of wildlife Important Analysis About Private Conservancy Rules drafted by Karnataka: Aim: Increase forest area through private land. Provisions: Anyone who has a minimum of 100 acres of land bordering a national park&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mercenary-conservation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercenary conservation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704671316},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}