Wild Animals I Have Known

Damage to crops by wild animals

Section I General discussions

GM Wani

Ph.D., DVM (Germany)

ISSGAPU FN, FN DAAD

Extension Director / SAMET

-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences Sher and Technology of Kashmir

Shalimar, Srinagar, 191 121

A brief global review to assess the damage caused to crops by wild animals around the world. The review was sought in response to a recommendation of ICAR Regional Committee No.1 in October 2007 at Solan, Hp chaired by Honourable Director General Dr Mangala Rai, ICAR inauguration was presided by the Honourable Minister J & Agriculture K, Jenab Ab. Aziz Zargar.

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Published by: State Agriculture Director of Management and Training Institute for the extension of Kashmir (Samet-K), SKUAST-K, Shalimar, PO Box: 461, GPO, Srinagar.

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Introduction:

       Human-wildlife conflicts have started since the beginning of the era of man since Adam and Eve. This conflict in the wilderness was the man hiding in the caves and it was called "caveman". Slowly, with his progress, it was he who invented the ax and weapons of stone and iron age to frighten the wild animals at first. Later, he drove them to flee. This feeling of uncertainty and fear of wild animals and the desert reduced with the invention of fire. He made sharp weapons of bone and iron. These weapons have been the initial conflict began, animals of human conflict.

Thirty thousand years, the human population has increased by 6 million. They were still hunters. With the invention of fire, he fired most of the sanctuaries, which scared the wildlife and they have migrated from his neighborhood. Many forests, hills and difficult terrain were still out of reach of the man three thousand years before, while the human population has increased to 60 million euros. The man has already begun to primitive agriculture. He had made his land and wildlife habitat left him frightened and narrow a search for homes costs. The man has now thirst fur, horns, ornaments, and other forest resources. He invented many ways to scare any wildlife. It has become a "danger" not only for wildlife but also for its own species, environment and eco-biodiversity.