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Why is the management of forest and wildlife resource considered as a challenging task?

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(1) Expanding human population results inexpanding needs. Forests provide a variety of resources to fulfill man's needs.
(ii) Forests are destroyed for reasons like agriculture, urbanization, construction of dams, roads, buildings, industries, hydroelectric projects etc.,
(iii) A lot of these projects are related to the economic growth of the country.
(iv) Natural resources are conserved for their biological, economic and recreational values. The use of natural resources in excess and unplanned way leads to imbalance in the environment.
(v) Wildlife is needed for maintaining biological diversity. It also helps is promoting economic activities and generates revenue through tourism. Conservation of forest and wildlife is interrelated. Over exploitation of forest cover areas has resulted in animals becoming extinct, threatened or on the verge of extinction.
(vi) A judicious balance should be maintained between exploitation of resources and its replenishment. Proper utilization and management of nature and its resources is termed as conservation.
(vii) We have to build a sustainable world,which should last forever. There should be a sharing of global resources among living organisms.
(viii) Thus management of forests and wildlife is indeed a challenging task.
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