VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

NATIONAL PARK

• National park is an area that has more legal status in general. A wildlife sanctuary may be elevated to the status of national park in the course of time, depending on the extent of additional protection, the value of the concerned wild animal species etc.
• National park has a sound legal status. They are developed exclusively for the purpose of conservation of wildlife in their natural environment. Drastic manipulation of the wildlife habitat is not favored in general.
• The approach towards the management related to the national park is basically of compensatory and reamelioratory nature.