Bigger known species are most likely to survive while the lesser-known species extinct without any news spreading about it.

Addressing this initiative, the Tamil Nadu Government created a 'Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund' which shall be a repository of Rs 50 crores to save the biodiversity from dying out the landscape of vegetation and fauna.

The fund shall be constituted with the State's contribution and the funding support from other government entities besides national and international funds.

This fund shall assist in the creation of new schemes for protecting endangered and critically endangered species.

The Ministry has even restricted the collection of samples of the notified species with regard to extinction. Also, it has suggested to carry out activities of conservation and rehabilitation both in situ and ex-situ. Many of these species are endemic to the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

For example, there are a lot of frog species which are endemic to the Anamalai landscape and are critically endangered. Hardly do we get to know about the distribution, population and breeding cycle and hence no management measures could be taken.

Nilgiris wart frog, white spotted bush frog, Anamalai flying frog, and blue frog are all in the category of the species recovery programme and it will be a novel kind of initiative for the country.

Similarly, a lot of attention is needed for the conservation of pangolins which is the world's highest-trafficked species. As per the latest analysis by the TRAFFIC and WWF-India, reportedly 125 pangolins were killed and trafficked.

A species called Nilgiri marten, only around 1000 individuals are left in the wild.

We must not forget that every species in the Nature has an important role to play. The equilibrium in the nature can only stabilise when the biological diversity is pristine and maintained.

Budget and various schemes are working together to improve the situation of these lesser-known species. Genetic diversity of every species must be preserved against the high-rise decline of forestry as well as wildlife. The species and the wildlife both are getting delineated and the Nature's right to self-preservation gets challenged.

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References:

• newsindianexpress.com
• indianmasterminds.com
• dtnext.in