02/11/2022
What is known as wildlife sanctuary?
A wildlife sanctuary is an area where animal habitats and their surroundings are protected from any sort of disturbance. The capturing, killing and poaching of animals is strictly prohibited in these regions.
Hunting is strictly prohibited in these areas. At present there are 99 Wildlife Sanctuaries in Pakistan.
Difference between National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary?
Answer: A wildlife sanctuary is specifically designated to protect animals, while a national park is designed to protect both plants and animals. National parks are also typically larger than sanctuaries.
Importance of Wildlife Sanctuary:
is not possible to move all the wildlife from one place to another and provide them with a habitat similar to their natural ones, which is why governments make sanctuaries for them to protect them in their natural abode.
It is easier to closely monitor the endangered animals in the wildlife sanctuaries. If they start reproducing and multiplying in numbers, the relevant authorities can take a few specimens of species on the verge of extinction and segregate them into a conservation park and breed them for their survival.
Wildlife sanctuaries make it easy for researchers and zoologists to come to these segregated areas and peacefully conduct their studies on the wildlife living there.
Sometimes they take in the injured or abandoned animals and rehabilitate them, upon recovery they are released back into the forests. Hunting is another factor that puts the already endangered species at an even greater risk of becoming extinct.
These wildlife sanctuaries provide a safe haven for these species as they remain safe from predators and hunters.
Major Wildlife Sanctuaries in Pakistan:
Manshi Wildlife Sanctuary
Astor Wildlife Sanctuary
Baltistan Wildlife Sanctuary
Bajwat Wildlife Sanctuary
Chashma and Taunsa Barrage Dolphin Sanctuary
Cholistan Wildlife Sanctuary
Hub Dam Wildlife Sanctuary
Mahal Kohistan Wildlife Sanctuary
Naltar Wildlife Sanctuary
Nara Desert Wildlife Sanctuary
Lake Haleji Wildlife Sanctuary
Manglot Wildlife National Park
