Q.How Indian culture and traditions helped in bio-diversity conservation? Give importance of conservation in terms of utilitarian reasons.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Step 1. Indian culture has long connected nature with tradition and ritual. Sacred groves -- stretches of forest set aside and protected in the name of a deity -- are found across regions such as the Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya, the Western Ghats of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the Aravali hills of Rajasthan, and parts of Madhya Pradesh; local tribal communities traditionally do not allow even a single branch to be cut from these groves, effectively conserving the plant and animal species within them for generations.
Step 2. Community-led protection has an equally deep history -- in 1731, when the ministers of the king of Jodhpur tried to fell trees for a new palace, the Bishnoi community resisted, and Amrita Devi lost her life hugging a tree in protest, along with her three daughters and hundreds of other Bishnois; this tradition of community stewardship continues today through mechanisms like Joint Forest Management (JFM), which shares forest produce with local communities in return for their role in protecting the forest.
Step 3. Turning to utilitarian importance, narrowly utilitarian reasons cover the direct material benefits humans draw from biodiversity -- food, clothing, shelter, industrial raw materials such as resins and tannins, and medicine (biodiversity-based medicines make up about 25% of the global medicine market, with roughly 25,000 species used in traditional medicine worldwide). …
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