Maintenance of Wildlife Sanctuaries & Parks

A summary of diagnosis on objectives, concepts, applications and defects is gives in page 384 para 3. Suggestions for maintenance of wildlife sanctuaries and parks are broadly of two categories: A. Discrete use strategy according to, varible systemic records in the total complex of ecosystems in the ruge under treatement. No area is to be kept out of use and out of sight. Required data and data processing are as follows: AA. Range inventery. BB. Spatiotemporal measurements ef structure and function. (i) Evolution of simple broad pattern methodologies, (ii) Refinement through experleace. (iii) Application or adaptation of existing techniques. CC. Inferences from data in AAA and ABB. (i) Interrelationship of structure and function with Tariable factors and influences. (ii) Role of the local man. (iii) Response to treatment. DD. Projections: (i) Reorieotation of approach towarels, the mainteance of wildlife sanctuaries and parks. (ii) Co-ordination of (eresmy aud wildlife consenation. (iii) Integration of the local man and his domesticated live stock into the total system. EE. Primary need to achieve the above is emphasised on proper and speedy education both at professional and technical levels. B. Action proposals on remedial measures for some obviou, delects . AA. Prevention of decimation through human agency. (i) Poisoning. (ii) Traps. (iii) Bows and arrows. (iv) Fire-arms. BB. Improvement of limiting factors like (i) Water, (ii) salt and (iii) cover. CC. Control of diseases. The paper ends with a warning against distortion of bio-aesthetics by construction of unnatural looking structures.