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Suggest the measures of wild-life conservation with reference to extinction of rare species.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Contemporary Issues

Rarity is self-accelerating. Once fragmentation pushes a population below its minimum viable population, inbreeding depression, genetic drift and demographic stochasticity finish what habitat loss began: the Asiatic lion's single Gir population is one epizootic from collapse however well guarded.

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  • Why rare species need a different answer from habitat protection
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